"Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas," Xerox tweeted on Wednesday Larry Tesler, best known for inventing the computer commands “cut,” “copy” and “paste,” has died, multiple ...

Larry Tesler, the former Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Apple computer scientist best-known for creating the cut, copy and paste commands for personal computers, died earlier this week. He was 74 ...

After the death of Larry Tesler this week, New Atlas takes a brief look back at the invention of those now-ubiquitous computer commands: cut, copy and paste. “When I make a copy-paste error, unlike ...

One of the key figureheads behind the modern computer is gone. Larry Tesler, best known as the creator of the ubiquitous commands “cut,” “copy,” and “paste,” passed away earlier this week at age 74.

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Computer scientist Larry Tesler, known as the inventor behind the "cut," "copy," and "paste" commands, has died at the age of 74. His contributions to modern technology have made personal computers ...

Computer scientist led Apple on the famous tours of Xerox PARC, where Steve Jobs was exposed to ideas for the Mac's graphical user interface. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's ...

Larry Tesler, an ex-Xerox PARC engineer who joined Apple in 1980 and rose to become the company’s chief scientist, has passed away at the age of 74. He was one of the engineers who demonstrated PARC’s ...

When you’re cutting and pasting, dragging the cursor over selected text and performing other common computer tasks, you can thank him. By John Markoff Lawrence Tesler, a pioneering computer scientist ...

Larry Tesler, an icon of early computing, has died at the age of 74. Mr Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s, at a time when computers were inaccessible to the vast majority of ...