Charles P. Thacker | |
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.jpg) Thacker in 2008 | |
| Born | Charles Patrick Thacker February 26, 1943 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Died | June 12, 2017 (aged 74) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1967) |
| Known for | Alto (computer) |
| Awards | IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2007) Turing Award (2009) Computer History Museum Fellow (2007)[1] Eckert–Mauchly Award (2017) [2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Xerox, DEC, Microsoft Research |
Charles Patrick "Chuck" Thacker (February 26, 1943 – June 12, 2017) was an American pioneer computer designer.[3] He designed the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven graphical user interface (GUI).
- ^ "Charles (Chuck) Thacker 2007 Fellow". Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "ACM and IEEE Computer Society Honor the Late Charles P. Thacker with 2017 Eckert-Mauchly Award" (PDF). Awards.acm.org. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "Xerox Alto designer, co-inventor of Ethernet, dies at 74". Ars Technica. 13 June 2017.