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Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science.He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, [a] and the development of ...
His last name is a play on the Russian-Jewish last name "Moskowitz", the name of the human occupants of the house his family is living under at the beginning of the film. John Finnegan as Warren T. Rat, a small Havana Brown who disguises himself as a rat. He is the leader of the Mott Street Maulers, an all-cat gang which terrorizes the mice of ...
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) Firewall (2006) The Net 2.0 (2006) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) WALL-E (2008) WarGames: The Dead Code (2008) Untraceable (2008) The Social Network (2010) Robot & Frank (2012) The Fifth Estate (2013) Disconnect (2013) Open Windows (2014) Who Am I – No System Is Safe (2014) Blackhat (2015) Chappie ...
Mickey Mouse: Mickey's rival for Minnie's affections. Mouse Fitzgerald Mouse 12 oz. Mouse: The main protagonist who is an alcoholic. Voiced by Matt Maiellaro. Naomi: Mouse Forest Friends: Jeff's best friend, fond of fairy tales and kind-hearted. Nibbles (a.k.a. Tuffy) Mouse Tom & Jerry: Portrayed as a baby mouse named Nibbles or a mature boy ...
TECT (originally TECT in the name of the Representative), the world-ruling computer in George Alec Effinger's novel The Wolves of Memory (1981) VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), an alien orbital satellite around a Nixon-era earth, from the Philip K. Dick novel VALIS. Only two novels out of an intended three-book trilogy were ever ...
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 computer. The first public ...
Jean-Daniel Nicoud (born 31 August 1938), is a Swiss computer scientist, noted for inventing of a computer mouse with an optical encoder and the CALM (Common Assembly Language for microprocessors). [1] He obtained a degree in physics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1963. Around 1965, he became interested in logical ...
Gordon Cleaver (1910–1994), British Second World War flying ace Mouse Davis (born 1932), American football coach and player William B. Evans (born 1958), Commissioner of the Boston Police Department