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The 83-year-old American, who worked on the mouse at California's Stanford Research Institute, never got any royalties because the patent expired before it became a must-have.

Byline: Stephen Kiesling When I was a kid, a family friend named Russell Targ was doing secret government research with psychics at Stanford Research Institute.

95 Paperback Studies in consciousness BF1029 Specialists in lasers, Targ and Puthoff describe how, at the request of the CIA during the Cold War, they initiated and ran a research program at Stanford Research Institute into remote viewing--a human perceptual ability to access, by mental means alone, information blocked from normal perception by distance, shielding, or time--and the results they obtained.

Brown's unqualified statement flies in the face of accepted wisdom, which suggests the first electronic communication between two computers took place between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in the United States over the Arpanet, some time in October 1969.

He said no one can remember who on his six-person team at the Stanford Research Institute first used the nickname "mouse," but it fit the little wire-tailed contraption so perfectly that no other label was considered.

Early in his career, he studied radiation chemistry at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

The first message was sent between a computer housed at UCLA and one at Stanford research Institute in northern California.

Founded as Stanford Research Institute in 1946, SRI has been meeting the strategic needs of clients for more than 60 years.