US computer scientist Lawrence "Larry" Tesler, the scienist behind cut, copy and paste has passed away at the age of 74. His death was announced on Twitter on Wednesday, February 19th 2020, by Xerox, where he spent a partion of his career. In the tweet, Xerox said: "The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler. Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas. Larry passed away Monday, so please join us in celebrating him." "Tesler created the idea of 'cut, copy, & paste' and combined computer science training with a counterculture vision that computers should be for everyone," the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley tweeted on Wednesday. Tesler was born in New York, in 1945. He studied computer science at Stanford, where he specialized in human-computer interaction. He began his career with Xerox (the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He would later em...
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