Moggridge developed the first laptop computer; and in the book he talks to something like 40 people who are involved one way or another with computing and design, including, for example, Tim Mott, who designed what we now know as the computer desktop; Gillian Crampton Smith, who established the first program in interaction design at the Royal College of Art in London; Larry Tesler, who had a hand in developing the mouse; and Brenda Laurel, a "digital diva" who has… [read post]

(Brenda Sapino Jeffreys, "$1 Billion Fen-Phen Case Settles Before Appellate Oral Arguments", Texas Lawyer, Apr. 16). [read post]