Bronx-born Lawrence "Larry" Tesler died this week at age 74, according to Xerox, where he spent part of his career.
Silicon
Valley on Wednesday was mourning a pioneering computer scientist
whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on "cut,
copy and paste" command.
Bronx-born
Lawrence "Larry" Tesler died this week at age 74, according
to Xerox, where he spent part of his career.
"The
inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more was
former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler," the company tweeted.
"Your
workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas. Larry passed
away Monday, so please join us in celebrating him." A graduate
of Stanford University, Tesler specialized in human-computer
interaction, employing his skills at Amazon, Apple, Yahoo, and the
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
The
cut and paste command was reportedly inspired by old time editing
that involved actually cutting portions of printed text and affixing
them elsewhere with adhesive.
"Tesler
created the idea of 'cut,
copy, & paste' and combined computer science training with a
counterculture vision that computers should be for everyone,"
the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley tweeted Wednesday.
The
command was made popular by Apple after being incorporated in
software on the Lisa computer in 1983 and the original Macintosh that
debuted the next year. Tesler worked for Apple in 1980 after being
recruited away from Xerox by late co-founder Steve Jobs.
Tesler
spent 17 years at Apple, rising to chief scientist.
He
went on to establish an education startup and do stints in
user-experience technology at Amazon and Yahoo.
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