Larry Tesler was a pioneer in human-computer interaction and invented the cut, copy, and paste commands while working for Xerox PARC in the 1970s. These innovations made personal computers far more user-friendly by allowing easy editing and movement of text. Tesler spent his long career working for technology companies like Xerox, Apple, and Amazon, influencing the development of user-friendly interfaces. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 74.

1. Larry Tesler: Computer scientist,
inventor of cut, copy-and-paste.
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2. Lawrence Tesler
• Tesler was the pioneer of early
computing and his work in the
human-computer interaction field
made things easier for many. The
'find-replace' and 'copy-paste'
commands were his brainchildren.
He along with his fellow researcher
Tim Mott developed the ‘Ctrl+C and
Ctrl +V’ command while working for
Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center
(Parc).
• Born:- 24-April-1945
The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
• Died:-16 February 2020 (aged 74)
Portola Valley, California, U.S.

3. Larry Tesler, an icon of early
computing,
• Mr. Tesler had studied at Stanford University in
California.
• Mr. Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early
1960s, at a time when computers were inaccessible to
the vast majority of people.
• Mr. Tesler spent part of his career in the Xerox
company.
• It was thanks to his innovations - which included the
"cut", "copy" and "paste" commands - that the
personal computer became simple to learn and use.

4. Larry Tesler, an icon of early
computing,
• Mr. Tesler had studied at Stanford University in California.
• Mr. Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early
1960s, at a time when computers were inaccessible to the
vast majority of people.
• Mr. Tesler spent part of his career in the Xerox company.
• It was thanks to his innovations - which included the "cut",
"copy" and "paste" commands - that the personal computer
became simple to learn and use.
• When you’re cutting and pasting, dragging the cursor over
the selected text and performing other common computer
tasks, you can thank him.

5. Larry Tesler: The Silicon Valley history
man
• After graduating, he specialized in user interface design -
that is, making computer systems more user-friendly.
• Mr. Tesler was credited with helping develop the terms
“user-friendly” and “WYSIWYG,” for “what you see is
what you get,” to describe the goal of having computer
printouts be the exact duplicate of what is seen on a
screen.
• Tesler also claimed he coined the word “browser” in
1976, to mean a point-and-click information navigation
window, and the word “modeless” around 1970, which
means a user interface in which the user is never “stuck”
in a mode. In fact, his business website and Twitter
handle are both called “nomades”.

6. continue
• Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum said Mr. Tesler "combined
computer science training with a counterculture vision that
computers should be for everyone".
• In the Computer History Museum interview, he recalled a discussion
about the computer mouse with a design engineer.
• “I said, ‘Have you ever seen anybody use a mouse on a computer?’ ”
• He worked for a number of major tech firms during his long career.
He started at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Parc) before Steve
Jobs poached him for Apple, where he spent 17 years and rose to the
chief scientist.
• After leaving Apple he set up an education start-up and worked for
brief periods at Amazon and Yahoo.

7. 'A counterculture vision'
• Possibly Mr. Tesler's most famous innovation, the cut, and
paste command, was reportedly based on the old method of
editing in which people would physically cut portions of
printed text and glue them elsewhere.
• The command was incorporated in Apple's software on the
Lisa computer in 1983, and the original Macintosh that was
released the following year.
• In 2009 he was granted the John McCarthy Award for
Excellence in Research and Research Environments.
• The term “friendly user interface” is attributed to Tesler as
well. The first known usage of the term was in a paper titled
“The Office of the Future” published in Business Week in
1975. However, as per Tesler, the usage of the more
commonly used phrase “user-friendly” preceded the 1975
publication.

8. Electronic agent the following tasks:
• On the one hand, the digital textual formations that can be called
textoids are similar to utterances in Bakhtin's sense. Unlike stable,
finished texts, they are fluid configurations of signs obedient to
such commands as "cut", "copy", "paste", "find", or "replace".
• On the other hand, the Web allows its user's even greater freedom
than oral communication: we can insert our voice into utterances
of other people, and interrupt, or spontaneously transform,
others' texts.
• In fact, electronic textoids are even more fluid than utterances as
defined by Bakhtin: he change of speaking subjects, by framing the
utterance and creating for it a stable mass that is sharply delimited
from other related utterances, is the first constitutive feature of
the utterance as a unit of speech communication.
• In each utterance -from the single-word, everyday rejoinder to
large, complex works of science or literature-we embrace,
understand and sense the speaker's speech plan or speech will,
which determines the entire utterance, its length, and boundaries.

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