Larry Tesler
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American computer scientist (1945–2020)
Key facts
- Born
- Lawrence Gordon Tesler , ( 1945-04-24 ) April 24, 1945, The Bronx , New York City , U.S.
- Died
- February 16, 2020 (2020-02-16) (aged 74), Portola Valley , California , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Stanford University
- Known for
- Cut, copy, and paste
- Spouses
- Shelagh Leuterio ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1969 ) Colleen Barton ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 )
- Fields
- Human–computer interaction
- Institutions
- Xerox PARC , Apple , Amazon , and Yahoo!
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Place of death
- Portola Valley
- Occupation
- programmer
- Educated at
- Bronx High School of Science
- Employer
- Xerox
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Award
- CHI Academy
- Notable work
- clipboard
- Field of work
- human–computer interaction
- Official website
- www.nomodes.com
- Image
- Larry Tesler Smiles at Whisper.jpeg
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- date of birth
- 1945-04-24
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- Computer History Museum
- Commons category
- Larry Tesler
- date of death
- 2020-02-17
- name in native language
- Larry Tesler
- birth name
- Lawrence Gordon Tesler
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Encyclopedic overview
Lawrence Gordon Tesler (April 24, 1945 – February 16, 2020) was an American computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer interaction. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!.
While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, the first word processor with a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Xerox Alto. During this, along with colleague Tim Mott, Tesler developed the idea of cut, copy, and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software. While at Apple, Tesler worked on the Apple Lisa and the Apple Newton, and helped to develop Object Pascal and its use in application programming toolkits including MacApp.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Larry Tesler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.