Larry Tesler
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Timelines provides perspectives on HCI history, glancing back at a road that sometimes took unexpected branches and turns. History is not a dry list of events; it is about points of view and differing interpretations.
Jonathan Grudin, Editor
- For more information on this project see my 2011 CHI Lifetime Practice Award talk (particularly minutes 6-12); http://dmcc.acm.org/pres/?query=/dmcc///confdata/chi2011/220-221-222/2011-05-11_09h02Google Scholar
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- A personal history of modeless text editing and cut/copy-paste
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