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3 days ago · A typical wireless computer mouse. A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a ...
2 days ago · The concept of cloud computing has its roots in the 1960s with the idea of an “intergalactic computer network” by J.C.R. Licklider, who envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers. However, it wasn’t until the late 1990s and early 2000s that the modern concept of cloud computing began to take shape.
1 day ago · In June that year, he gave a paper "Time Sharing in Large Fast Computers" at the UNESCO Information Processing Conference in Paris where he passed the concept on to J. C. R. Licklider. Licklider (along with John McCarthy) was instrumental in the development of time-sharing.
1 day ago · Tim Berners-Lee (born June 8, 1955, London, England) is a British computer scientist, generally credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. In 2004, he was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize (€1 million) by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.
5 days ago · In his essay, J.C.R. Licklider referred to this kind of human-AI system as “man-computer symbiosis” (Licklider, 1960). Douglas Engelbart offered a theoretical framework for “augmenting human intellect” which also depends on humans and computers working together (Engelbart, 2021 ) .
3 days ago · In 1962, a scientist from M.I.T. called J.C.R. Licklider proposed a solution to the problem of the Cold War concern of a Soviet attack on the US telephone network: a "galactic network" of computers that could talk to each another.
