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词条 Bill English (computer engineer)
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William "Bill" K. English (born 1938) is an American computer engineer who contributed to the development of the computer mouse while working for Douglas Engelbart at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center.[2][3] He would later work for Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems.

Career

English joined SRI in the 1960s to work on magnetic drives, and built one of the first all-magnetic arithmetic units with Hewitt Crane.[4] In 1964, he was the first person to join Douglas Engelbart's lab, the Augmentation Research Center.

He and Douglas Engelbart share credit for creating the first computer mouse in 1963; English built the initial prototype, and was its first user, based on Engelbart's notes.[5] English led a 1965 project, sponsored by NASA, which evaluated the best way to select a point on a computer display; the mouse was the winner.[4][5] English was also instrumental at The Mother of All Demos in 1968, which showcased the mouse and other technologies developed as part of their NLS (oN-Line System).[4] In particular, English figured out how to connect a terminal in the San Francisco Civic Auditorium to the host computer at SRI, and also transmitted audio and video between the locations.[4]

He left SRI in 1971 and went to Xerox PARC, where he managed the Office Systems Research Group. While working at PARC, English developed a ball mouse, in which a ball replaced the original set of wheels.[2] It worked similar to a moveable ball-based mouse device called Rollkugel, which had been developed by Telefunken, Germany, and was offered since 1968 as input device for their computers.[6][7]

In 1989, he went to work for Sun Microsystems on internationalization efforts.[2][8]

References

1. ^{{cite book |last1=Shearer |first1=Benjamin F. |title=Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime |date=2007 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780313334214 |page=277 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJhx8H8XLnQC&pg=PA277&lpg=PA277&dq=William+English+computer+mouse+born+(%221938%22+OR+%221929%22)&source=bl&ots=3y50Bmm6Kg&sig=Z6kHexZ6NEKg2VcM3s4Adg3zKT4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjopo6U0JHfAhWiVN8KHffKCfcQ6AEwCXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=William%20English%20computer%20mouse%20born%20(%221938%22%20OR%20%221929%22)&f=false |accessdate=9 December 2018}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/mouse_10172001/english/index.shtml|title=Bill English|publisher=Computer History Museum|accessdate=2013-02-03|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104025645/http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/mouse_10172001/english/index.shtml|archivedate=2012-01-04|df=}}
3. ^{{cite book |last=Shearer |first=Benjamin |date=2007 |title=Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime, Volume 1 |url= |location=Westport, CT |publisher=Greenwood Press |page=277 |isbn=0-313-33421-8 |author-link= }}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sri.com/about/alumni/alumni-hall-fame-2006#English|title=Alumni Hall of Fame 2006: Bill English|publisher=SRI International|accessdate=2013-01-25}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/mouse.html|title=Mouse|publisher=Doug Engelbart Institute|accessdate=2013-01-25}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Auf-den-Spuren-der-deutschen-Computermaus--/meldung/136901 |title=Auf den Spuren der deutschen Computermaus |trans-title=In the footsteps of the German computer mouse |language=German |publisher=Heise Verlag|date=2009-04-28|accessdate=2013-01-07}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/misc/telefunken.shtml|title=Telefunken's 'Rollkugel'|publisher=oldmouse.com}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/mouse_10172001/english/index.shtml|title=Bill English: Early Computer Mouse Encounters Lecture|accessdate=2013-01-25|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104025645/http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/mouse_10172001/english/index.shtml|archivedate=2012-01-04|df=}}
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7 : 1938 births|Living people|Computer hardware engineers|21st-century American engineers|Place of birth missing (living people)|SRI International people|Scientists at PARC

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