William Kirk English was 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.
William English in 2008
The SRI prototype mouse, designed by Engelbart and built by English
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SRI International, originally the Stanford Research Institute, is a nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States. It was established
Bill English (computer engineer)
…1929 – July 26, 2020) was 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. He would later work for Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems. English was born on January 27, 1929, in Lexington, Kentucky…
SRI International's headquarters in Menlo Park, California
SRI participant Paul Magill discussing the smog on Black Friday in Los Angeles at the first National Air Pollution Symposium in 1949
The ERMA system, which uses magnetic ink character recognition to process checks, was one of SRI's earliest developments.