Charles P. Thacker

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What Wikipedia says

Charles Patrick "Chuck" Thacker (February 26, 1943 – June 12, 2017) was an American pioneer computer designer. He designed the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven graphical user interface (GUI). In 2009, he won the ACM Turing Award.

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