Graham Linehan

People are very confused about how to do things on a computer, but generally, if you hover your cursor over things, it will tell you what it is.

Irish Comedian

Hope Jahren

Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft.

American Scientist

A cursor on screens is an indicator for text insertion point and can be moved by keys or mouse.

Cursor Position

The blinking of a cursor guides the user's eye to the active text point.

Blinking Behavior

The cursor allows precise text selection and navigation for editing purposes.

Editing Aid

Historically, a cursor aided in reading or drafting physical documents.

Historical Usage

An old-fashioned cursor was not digital but a physical tool for alignment.

Focus Device

In Rome, a cursor was an important messenger, not unlike today's delivery personnel.

Ancient Occupation

Understanding ancient cursors highlights how communication has changed over time.

Historical Significance

 lot of the world around us so as a computer scientist inspired by this utility of our interactions with physical objects along with my adviser Patty and my collaborator Jeevan kallana thei I started to wonder what if when we use a computer instead of having this one mouse cursor that it was like a digital fingertip moving around a flat desktop what if we could reach in with

Toy tiles that talk to...

 The dots exhibit human qualities. They kind of have their own physics, and they swarm wildly around, kind of exploring the world of life. And then they also exhibit curiosity. You can see a few of them are swarming around the cursor right now. You can see some other ones are swarming around the bottom left corner of the screen

Jonathan Harris: The...

 but I've kind of slowed it down so you can actually see the attack occurring. Malware is very boring otherwise. So this is writing out the malicious code, and a few seconds later, on the left-hand side, you'll see the attacker's screen get some interesting new text. Now if I place the mouse cursor over it,

James Lyne: Everyday...

 location of a cursor on a screen he has limited ability to to use his thumb so he uses his thumb as a to press a button to do mouse clicks so when Henry saw that we actually have this AR Drone technology he could fly drones around through a web interface he said we got to try it and I said I want

Chad Jenkins: Robots...

 So every trajectory that you see of the cursor now, this is the exact first moment she got that. That's the exact first moment a brain intention was liberated from the physical domains of a body of a primate and could act outside, in that outside world, just by controlling an artificial device.

Miguel Nicolelis: A...

 And with that muscle, he moves a cursor over each letter of the alphabet on his laptop screen. He chooses a letter, builds a word, constructs a paragraph, and that's how he communicated those epic statements about space, time and humanity to us. At the end of the session, I said to him,

Stories of Photographing...

 When we find one or a few of these cells with each patient, we can then do all kinds of fancy things. For example, we can connect the recording electrode to a cursor on a screen and have the patient move the cursor left or right just by thinking of things. This can help people

What if we could look...

 in the middle where the cursor is and he presses this blue button called Sonic eight we called this instance of injecting the energy we call it sonication the only handwork the physician does here is moving a mouse this is the only device in aids in this

Ultrasound surgery --...

 gonna tell us what it's like to be able to control something. So he's controlling that cursor with his thoughts. And this is actually the world's first art, I think. Neurally drawn circle. Oh, man, I can't put it into words. It just I used my brain

National Geographic...

 It was then I realized that I could also use an aerial drone to expand the worlds of bedridden people through flight, giving a sense of movement and control that is incredible. Using a mouse cursor I control with my head,