William "Bill" English is a computer engineer who contributed to the development of the computer mouse while working for
Douglas EngelbartDr. Douglas C. Engelbart is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the...
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SRI InternationalSRI International, founded as Stanford Research Institute, is one of the world's largest contract research institutes. Based in the United States, the trustees of Stanford University established it in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region. It was later...
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Augmentation Research CenterStanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center was founded by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart to develop and experiment with new tools and techniques for collaboration and information processing. The main product to come out of ARC was the revolutionary oN-Line System, better...
. He left SRI in 1971 and headed to
Xerox ParcPARC , formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology....
, where he managed the Office Systems Research Group. While working at Xerox PARC, English developed the mouse ball, replacing the original set of wheels. In 1989 he left to go work for
Sun MicrosystemsSun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982...
on internationalization efforts.
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William "Bill" English is a computer engineer who contributed to the development of the computer mouse while working for
Douglas EngelbartDr. Douglas C. Engelbart is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the...
at
SRI InternationalSRI International, founded as Stanford Research Institute, is one of the world's largest contract research institutes. Based in the United States, the trustees of Stanford University established it in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region. It was later...
's
Augmentation Research CenterStanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center was founded by electrical engineer Douglas Engelbart to develop and experiment with new tools and techniques for collaboration and information processing. The main product to come out of ARC was the revolutionary oN-Line System, better...
. He left SRI in 1971 and headed to
Xerox ParcPARC , formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology....
, where he managed the Office Systems Research Group. While working at Xerox PARC, English developed the mouse ball, replacing the original set of wheels. In 1989 he left to go work for
Sun MicrosystemsSun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982...
on internationalization efforts.
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