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William English

American inventor
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  • Computer interface pioneer Douglas EngelbartEngelbart holding a video conference on the right side of the computer screen while working on a document with a remote collaborator during a 1968 computer conference in San Francisco, California.
    Douglas Engelbart

    …with a colleague at SRI, William English, he eventually perfected a variety of input devices that became common—including joysticks, light pens, and track balls. Prior to Engelbart’s inventions, laborious and error-prone keypunch cards or manually set electronic switches were necessary to control computers, and data had to be printed before…

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    …with a colleague at SRI, William English, he eventually perfected a variety of input devices that became common—including joysticks, light pens, and track balls. Prior to Engelbart’s inventions, laborious and error-prone keypunch cards or manually set electronic switches were necessary to control computers, and data had to be printed before…

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