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René Sommer (1951 – 5 October 2009) was a
René Sommer (1951 – 5 October 2009) was a Swiss
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inventor
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and computer programmer
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, credited as a co-inventor of the computer mouse
A computer mouse (plural mice, sometimes mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of a pointer on a display, which allows a smooth ...
.
Along with Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud
Jean-Daniel Nicoud (born 31 August 1938), is a Swiss computer scientist, noted for inventing of a computer mouse with an optical encoder and the CALM (Common Assembly Language for microprocessors).
He obtained a degree in physics at the Éco ...
and André Guignard, Sommer helped invent the computer mouse
A computer mouse (plural mice, sometimes mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of a pointer on a display, which allows a smooth ...
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology The Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology are two institutes of higher education in Switzerland (part of the ETH Domain):
* Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
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in Lausanne
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. Sommer was credited for making the mouse "more intelligent" by adding a micro-processor
A microprocessor is a computer processor where the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit, or a small number of integrated circuits. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circ ...
to the mouse's design in 1985.
Sommer died on 5 October 2009 in Saint-Légier, Vaud
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, Switzerland, at the age of 58.
Logitech
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, which manufactured the original mouse, called Sommer a ‘brilliant and impassioned engineer’ in reaction to his death.
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