Most personal computers in use today provide an interface for their users that employs windows, icons, menus, and pointing devices. WIMP interfaces allow the user to exchange information with the computer by means of a pointing device (often a mouse)...

In human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for "window, icon, menu, pointing device", denoting a style of interaction using these elements. It was coined by Merzouga Wilberts in 1980. It was once often used as an approximate synonym of graphical user...

Byline: Jeffrey Marsh, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Richard Feynman, the virtuoso physicist with an unmatched insight into the quantum world, once famously remarked that "Nobody understands quantum mechanics." Despite this disturbing situation, physicists were able to use the counterintuitive results of quantum...

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Wimp? No, just champ Toms holds off Mickelson By GARY D'AMATO of the Journal Sentinel staff Monday, August 20, 2001 Duluth, Ga. -- He grabbed the 5-wood and studied the situation. His golf ball was nestled...

Jot this down on your calendar, please: No head banging.Pencil it in for Jan. 4, 10:17 p.m., because that's right about when you will be testing your forehead against different walls, trying to decide which one to bang it against as punishment for failing so...

While the rest of punditry dumps on Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani for his Florida strategy — which, to put it mildly, does not seem to be working — I have to wonder if Giuliani's biggest mistake was not touting himself as the only supporter...