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Home » Magazine Archive » 2009 » No. 12 » Technical Perspective: A Graphical Sense of Touch » Abstract
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Technical Perspective: A Graphical Sense of Touch
One of the major innovations in computing was the invention of the graphical user interface at MIT, SRI, and Xerox PARC. The combination of computer graphics hardware with a mouse and keyboard enabled a new class of highly interactive applications based on direct manipulation of on-screen displays.
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