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Larry Tesler: Computer Scientist Behind Cut, Copy, and Paste Dies at Age 74 BBC News
Larry Tesler, inventor of the "cut," "copy," and "paste" commands, recipient of ACM SIGCHI's Lifetime Practice Award in 2011 and inducted to the CHI Academy in 2010, has died at the age of 74. Tesler's innovations helped make personal computers simple to learn and use. After New York-born Telser graduated from Stanford University, he specialized in user-interface design, the process of making computer systems more user-friendly. He worked for a number of technology firms during his long career, including the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Parc), Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo. Tesler "combined computer science training with a counterculture vision that computers should be for everyone," according to Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum. ... '
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