Bill English (computer engineer)

Bill English
photo of William English in 2008
William English in 2008
Born
William Kirk English

(1929-01-27)January 27, 1929
Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedJuly 26, 2020(2020-07-26) (aged 91)
San Rafael, California, U.S.
Known forDevelopment of the computer mouse
Scientific career
InstitutionsSRI International's ARC
Xerox PARC
Sun Microsystems

William Kirk English (January 27, 1929 – July 26, 2020) was an American computer engineer who contributed to the development of the computer mouse while working for Douglas Engelbart at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center.[1][2] He would later work for Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems.

Early life

English was born on January 27, 1929, in Lexington, Kentucky. The only son of Harry English and Caroline (Gray) English, he had two half-brothers from his father's previous marriage. Harry English was an electrical engineer who managed coal mines and Caroline was a homemaker. William, or Bill as he was known, attended a boarding school in Arizona and then studied electrical engineering at the University of Kentucky.[3]

Career

English served in the US Navy until the late 1950s, including postings in northern California and Japan.[3] He then joined the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s to work on magnets, and built one of the first all-magnetic arithmetic units with Hewitt Crane.[4] In 1964, he was the first person to join Douglas Engelbart's lab, the Augmentation Research Center.

The SRI prototype mouse, designed by Engelbart and built by English

He and Douglas Engelbart share credit for creating the first computer mouse in 1963; English built the initial prototype, and was its first user, based on Engelbart's notes.[5][6] English led a 1965 project, sponsored by NASA, which evaluated the best way to select a point on a computer display; the mouse was the winner.[4][7] English was also instrumental at The Mother of All Demos in 1968, which showcased the mouse and other technologies developed as part of their NLS (oN-Line System).[4][8] In particular, English figured out how to connect a terminal in the San Francisco Civic Auditorium to the host computer at SRI 30 miles (48 km) away, and also transmitted audio and video between the locations.[4][8]

He left SRI in 1971 and went to Xerox PARC, where he managed the Office Systems Research Group. While working at PARC, English developed a ball mouse, in which a ball replaced the original set of wheels.[2] It worked similarly to a moveable ball-based mouse device called Rollkugel, which had been developed by Telefunken, Germany, and was offered since 1968 as input device for their computers.[5][9]

In 1989, he went to work for Sun Microsystems on internationalization efforts.[2]

English died of respiratory failure in San Rafael, California, on July 26, 2020, aged 91.[3][6]

References

  1. ^ Shearer, Benjamin F. (2007). Home Front Heroes: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans During Wartime. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 277. ISBN 9780313334214. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Bill English". Computer History Museum. Archived from the original on January 4, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Metz, Cade (July 31, 2020). "William English, Who Helped Build the Computer Mouse, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d "Alumni Hall of Fame 2006: Bill English". SRI International. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  5. ^ a b "Auf den Spuren der deutschen Computermaus" [In the footsteps of the German computer mouse] (in German). Heise Verlag. April 28, 2009. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91". BBC News. August 3, 2020. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  7. ^ "Mouse". Doug Engelbart Institute. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  8. ^ a b Hintz, Eric (December 10, 2018). "The Mother of All Demos". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  9. ^ "Telefunken's 'Rollkugel'". oldmouse.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2009.

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