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American inventor and engineer who invented the computer mouse, developed hypertext and groupware, created the GUI concept, and gave 'The Mother of All Demos' (1968) — demonstrating word processing, video conferencing, hypertext, and collaborative real-time editing 40 years before they became mainstream.
American computer scientist and Stanford professor, Larry Page's doctoral advisor, best known for his 1971 SHRDLU natural language program and his later work on human-computer interaction design.
Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, which from 1970–1985 produced the graphical user interface, Ethernet, laser printing, object-oriented programming, and the modern PC concept — inventions Xerox largely failed to commercialize.