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...

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...

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...

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....