good bye! Father of good luck

Lawrence Gordon Tesler is the father of Copy and Paste. To be the creator of the copy and paste function. He died on February 17 (local time), who created this feature that anyone would have used at least once on a computer. 74 years old.

Larry Tesla isn’t a fancy celebrity like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. However, it is clear that his achievements have had a great influence on modern computers. Born in New York, USA in 1945, he majored in computer science at Stanford University. After graduation, he also studied artificial intelligence and participated in anti-war movements and anti-monopoly movements of large companies such as IBM.

He began working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973 and attended until 1980. These days, GUIs are the mainstream in computers, but Xerox PARC at the time was well known for the development of a graphic interface driven by a mouse. Tesla was developing a word processor called Gypsy here. At this time, the terms cut, copy and paste, which are now widely used, were coined.

When Xerox PARC ceased to invest in computer groundbreaking research, he eventually moved to Apple Computer. He worked at Apple until 1997, where he served as vice president of AppleNet and senior scientist at Apple.

After leaving Apple in 1997, he founded a company called Stagecast Software. We have dedicated ourselves to developing simpler and easier to use applications than ever before, so that children can learn programming concepts. He joined Amazon in 2001 and served as Vice President of the Shofeng experience. In 2005, he moved to Yahoo for user experience and design, and in 2013 he joined genetic testing company 23andMe. Related information can be found here .