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Wimp (Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointing Devices) Summary
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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)...
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WIMP Information
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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...


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The New York Observer
Peter King Calls the Republicans a Bunch of Wimps
10/29/2006: 1,366 words, approx. 5 pages
Peter King is worried that his fellow Republicans are turning into wimps. “I find it frustrating sometimes with the Republicans—you want to shake them and say ‘Let’s do this,’” said Mr. King, the pugnacious Long Island Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “A...
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The New York Observer
Peter King Calls the Republicans a Bunch of Wimps
10/29/2006: 1,366 words, approx. 5 pages
Peter King is worried that his fellow Republicans are turning into wimps. “I find it frustrating sometimes with the Republicans—you want to shake them and say ‘Let’s do this,’” said Mr. King, the pugnacious Long Island Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee....
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AP News
Race is on to detect dark matter
8/12/2007: 1,047 words, approx. 4 pages
In deep underground laboratories around the globe, a high-tech race is on to spot dark matter, the invisible cosmic glue that's believed to keep galaxies from spinning apart.Whoever discovers the nature of dark matter would solve one of modern science's greatest mysteries and be a...
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Researchers seek mysterious dark matter
8/13/2007: 1,047 words, approx. 4 pages
In deep underground laboratories around the globe, a high-tech race is on to spot dark matter, the invisible cosmic glue that's believed to keep galaxies from spinning apart. Whoever discovers the nature of dark matter would solve one of modern science's greatest mysteries and be...
 


 

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