Re:Apple to Start Publishing AI Research
by opo on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @12:40AM
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>... (inventors of the mouse, GUI, and object oriented programming),
Xerox PARC had a number of notable inventions and they created the Alto computer which had a bitmapped screen with the desktop metaphor, but they did not invent the mouse or object oriented programming.
In terms of the computer mouse:
>...Independently, Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) invented his first mouse prototype in the 1960s with the assistance of his lead engineer Bill English.
Xerox PARC had a number of notable inventions and they created the Alto computer which had a bitmapped screen with the desktop metaphor, but they did not invent the mouse or object oriented programming.
In terms of the computer mouse:
>...Independently, Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) invented his first mouse prototype in the 1960s with the assistance of his lead engineer Bill English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse
In regards to object oriented programming:
>...Simula (1967) is generally accepted as being the first language with the primary features of an object-oriented language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming