How Bill English helped create the computer mouse, and the effort to change the face of architecture
Design and Architecture · KCRW
August 12, 202029m 40s
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">California has around 21,000 licensed architects, and 300 of them are Black. SoCalNOMA (</span><a href="https://socalnoma.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Organization of Minority Architects</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) hopes to change that through its </span><a href="https://socalnoma.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SoCal-NOMA-DEI-Challenge_2020-Final-for-Release-1.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Challenge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. SoCalNOMA President Lance Collins also talks about decolonizing architecture education and finding an African American architectural language. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Computer engineer William English made the mouse a reality. His son John reflects on his father’s work, how William English felt about Apple’s version of the mouse, and how the mouse got its name.</span></p>