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Chuck Thacker Dead

Chuck Thacker
KindPerson
Born1943
Died2017
StatusDead
Fieldcomputing
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Led the Alto's hardware at PARC — the machine that showed Jobs the future — and kept building through the tablet era.

Led the Xerox Alto's hardware design — the machine that invented the GUI — and later designed the first tablet computer (LCS).\n\nTuring Award 2009; the 'engineer who built the future' PARC researchers wrote on.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Thacker
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto