[Old news] Larry Tesler, computer scientist who created 'copy and paste', dies
Larry Tessler, who worked at Apple from 1980 to 1997 and created the `` cut, '' `` copy, '' and `` paste '' that now takes place on a computer and saves data to the clipboard and pastes it elsewhere Mr. died on Monday, February 17, 2020. 74 years old.
Larry Tesler
Larry Tesler, the Apple employee who invented cut, copy, paste, dies at 74
Larry Tesler, Modeless Computing Advocate, Has Passed Away
https://gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408
Larry Tesler cut and pasted from this mortal coil: That thing you just did? He probably invented it • The Register
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/19/larry_tesler/
Tessler was born in New York in 1945. He studied computer science at Stanford University, graduated from the Stanford Institute for Artificial Intelligence , and since 1973 has worked at the Palo Alto Institute at Xerox.
What Tesler did was make the computer easy to use and user friendly. The Palo Alto Research Center era, Alan Kay has created a 'GUI' with et al.
We also worked diligently to realize “modeless design”. 'Mode' refers to, for example, the 'insert' mode and 'overwrite' mode of word processing software. Different modes respond differently to the user's actions, but Tesler thought that 'user actions should be assigned consistent effects' and aimed to 'eliminate the mode.' The cut, copy, and paste functions for inserting and overwriting text without changing the mode were created in this trend.
Many software and features 'react the same when they do the same thing' on modern computers thanks to Tessler's work. Tessler's commitment to `` modeless '' is because his car's number slate was `` NOMODES '', his website domain was ` ` nomodes.com '', and his Twitter account name was nomodes. I can return.
In 1979, Tesler met Steve Jobs, who came to visit the Palo Alto Institute, and was impressed with the ideas in his head. The following year, in 1980, Tesler quit Xerox and joined Apple, which was still in the startup phase. We worked on the development of Lisa, the first Apple product with a mouse and GUI. In addition, he denied that it was recognized as 'the father of the Macintosh GUI', 'no,' and commented, 'But if you conduct paternity testing, you may be one of your grandparents.'
After Lisa, he worked on various Apple internal projects, including the development of his first personal PDA, the Newton MessagePad. The official website history includes Macintosh, Color QuickDraw, QuickTime, AppleScript, and HyperCard names.
After leaving Apple in 1997, Mr. Tessler was a freelance technical consultant, working for Amazon, Yahoo! and others.
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