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Butler Lampson

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Butler W. Lampson is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing. He won the 1992 ACM Turing Award. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1943 1
Birth Date
1943-12-23 1
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Xerox Alto, Systems

Butler Lampson was a principal designer of the Xerox Alto at Xerox PARC, the first computer built around a graphical user interface and mouse.

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    Butler W. Lampson (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing. He won the 1992 ACM Turing Award.
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    December 23, 1943
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