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Larry Tesler

1945 - 2020

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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 copy and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Larry Tesler is the 82nd most popular computer scientist (up from 86th in 2019), the 4,684th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,934th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Larry Tesler ranks 82 out of 245. Before him are Ian Murdock, Adi Shamir, Warren Weaver, Evelyn Berezin, Ruzena Bajcsy, and Edwin Catmull. After him are Nolan Bushnell, Dana Scott, Jay Wright Forrester, Joseph Sifakis, Martin Hellman, and Ninoslav Marina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Larry Tesler ranks 271. Before him are José Manuel Fuente, Joseph Delaney, Edwin Catmull, Jandira Martini, Revaz Dzodzuashvili, and Sheila. After him are Sylvester Levay, Cem Karaca, John Doman, Anselm Grün, John Perkins, and Roger Donaldson. Among people deceased in 2020, Larry Tesler ranks 275. Before him are Luke Harper, Enzo Mari, Ronald Graham, Fred Willard, Zenon Grocholewski, and Frederick Ballantyne. After him are Robert Fisk, Irrfan Khan, Yuri Orlov, Jonathan Sacks, Enrique Irazoqui, and Idir.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Tesler ranks 4,684 out of 20,380. Before him are Theresa Russell (1957), Tom Bosley (1927), Nancy J. Currie-Gregg (1958), Clyde Cowan (1919), Raphael Warnock (1969), and Walter Koenig (1936). After him are William Graham Sumner (1840), Leon Spinks (1953), P. J. Kennedy (1858), Ron Rifkin (1939), Bernie Mac (1957), and Dan McKee (1951).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Larry Tesler ranks 48. Before him are Jef Raskin (1943), Richard M. Karp (1935), Fred Brooks (1931), Warren Weaver (1894), Evelyn Berezin (1925), and Edwin Catmull (1945). After him are Nolan Bushnell (1943), Dana Scott (1932), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Martin Hellman (1945), Radia Perlman (1951), and John Henry Holland (1929).

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