William English, co-inventor of the computer mouse dies

William English, the engineer who invented the first modern computer mouse in 1968, has just died at the age of 91 in California, USA.

The mouse must have been attached to your familiar PC computer. But before it was born, things were not easy at all. At that time, the input of information had to use very slow methods, such as using punch cards, until William English, better known as Bill, and Douglas English invented the computer mouse. count.

William English works for the SRI Research Center (ARC) and is responsible for inventing new ways for people to interact with computers and technology.

The first mouse, created by Bill English in the mid-60s, was simply a block of wood, a button, and a connection cord in super old times. It consists of two potentiometers, which track the movement of two rollers as the user moves the device. It looks pretty ordinary, but it started the computer accessory innovation movement when they exploded in the late 90s.

The team named the device mouse after its original compact form.

The computer mouse is one of the inventions from the SRI team. They also introduced bit-mapped display (a grid of small dots) and hypertext (embedded links in text). They were performed at “The Mother of All Demo” in San Francisco in 1968.

William English then worked for Xeror Palo Alto Research (PARC). There, he developed the ball mouse (with a rolling ball), and helped develop the computer that would later influence Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh computers.

William English had a wife, Roberta, two sons, Aaron and John; stepdaughter of his wife named Patricia and a niece.