i can just do that. it's also another capital of the business idea "buying names", this time yahoo. tesler is also part of the history of dynabook, notetaker and newton, which i still have in use.

Larry Tesler has maintained a consistent presence in the field of computer usability since its inception by contributing to virtually every stage of the user interface's evolution. During his stint at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the early 1970s, Tesler developed a "document compiler" capable of formatting text and producing footnotes, tables of contents, indexes, and bibliographies, which became a precursor of Dynamic HTML.

Tesler's tenure at the Palo Alto Research Center was marked by achievements such as a paper he co-wrote in which he first brought up the concepts of cut-and-paste and the representation of content as icons. Another major accomplishment was the development of Gypsy, a modeless user interface for text editing that featured cut-and-paste, fill-in forms to enter search terms, bold and italic type styles, text selection via mouse, click-to-open files, and what-you-see-is-what-you-get printing. Tesler went from PARC to Apple Computer, where he was extensively involved in the development of Lisa, the first commercially sold PC to use windows, icons, and a mouse.

He also worked on the Macintosh project in an unofficial capacity, providing constructive criticism on the Mac user interface that led to far-reaching design decisions, such as the placement of the menu bar on the top and folders and documents on the screen. As vice president of Apple's Advanced Technology Group, Tesler oversaw the initial development of a fully-functional handheld Mac, which he terminated to concentrate on the Newton handheld PC, which was a failure. He later spun off the Cocoa object-oriented programming language into a company where it was developed into software that enabled schoolchildren with no programming skills to easily create simulations and video games, which is still in use today. In May, Tesler joined Yahoo as vice president of user experience and design. (acm technews

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yeah sure, but at home i have to pay for it. i think the guy is right who says:

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