Friday, March 12, 2004

SV Trip 2003: The birth place of the WIMP graphical user interface

[From my trip to Silicon Valley, California, in 2003]
Xerox Parc
A lot of early work on computing and graphical user interfaces was done at Xerox Parc, including the creation of the mouse and the common Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer (WIMP) interface model. Parc is located close to Stanford University.