Ted Selker

Dr. Ted Selker (Edwin Joseph Selker [1]), is an American computer scientist who heads the Context Aware Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab and is the MIT director of The Voting Technology Project and Design Intelligence. Selker holds 56 US patents, and is best known for developing the pointing stick (a.k.a TrackPoint) which forms the once distinctive feature of IBM ThinkPads.
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