Lawrence Gordon Tesler (born April 24, 1945) is a computer scientist working in the field of human-computer interaction. Tesler has worked at Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, Amazon, and Yahoo! Tesler grew up in New York City and graduated Bronx High School of Science in 1961. He went to Stanford University, where he studied computer science in the 1960s, and worked for a time at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. With Horace Enea, he designed Compel, an early single assignment language. This functional programming language is intend to make concurrent processing more natural and is to use to introduce programming concepts to beginners. In the late 60s he was involved with the Midpeninsula Free University, where he delivered classes on such topics as How to End the IBM Monopoly, Computers Now and Procrastination..From 1973 to 1980, he was at Xerox PARC, where, among other things, he worked on the Gypsy word processor and Smalltalk. Copy and paste was first implemented in 1973-1976 by Tesler and Tim Mott while working on the programming of Gypsy at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. In 1980, Tesler is move to Apple Computer, where he is hold various positions, including Vice President of Apple Net, Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group, and Chief Scientist He did not work on the Lisa team, and is enthusiasm about the development of the Macintosh as the successor to the Lisa. In 1985, Tesler worked with Niklaus Wirth to add object-oriented language extensions to the Pascal programming language, calling the new language Object Pascal. He also was instrumental in developing MacApp, one of the first class libraries for application development. Eventually, these two technologies became shipping Apple products. Starting in 1990, Tesler led the efforts to develop the Apple Newton, initially as Vice President of the Advanced Development Group, and then as Vice President of the Personal Interactive Electronics division. In 1991, he contributed the article Networked Computing in the 1990s to Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991. Tesler left Apple in 1997 to co-found Stage cast Software, which allowed him to apply his enthusiasm for kids programming and use of computers, an enthusiasm he acquired mainly at Xerox PARC, where he worked in Alan Kays Learning Research Group. Tesler joined Amazon in 2001; in 2004, he became the companys Vice President of Shopping Experience. In 2005, he joined Yahoo! as Vice President of Yahoo!s User Experience and Design group. In November 2008, he left Yahoo to join personal genetics information company, 23 and Me, as Product Fellow. Since December 2009, he has been an independent consultant..
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