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Douglas Engelbart
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and...
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Benjamin Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist. Whorf is widely known for his ideas about linguistic relativity, the hypothesis that language influences thought. An important theme in many of...
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- Douglas Engelbart
Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ([kɔˈʐɨpski]) (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is most remembered for developing the theory of general semantics.
He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire. He came from...
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- Charles Peirce,
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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- Percy Williams Bridgman,
- William Alanson White,
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Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974; pronounced /væˈniːvɑr/ van-NEE-var) was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary...
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- Arthur Edwin Kennelly,
- Arthur Gordon Webster
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- Claude Elwood Shannon,
- Ted Nelson,
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Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that...
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- Vannevar Bush,
- Marvin Minsky
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- Robert F. Sproull,
- Alan Kay
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- Douglas Engelbart,
- Franklin C. Crow,
- Henri Gouraud,
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- Franklin C. Crow,
