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René Sommer (1951 – 5 October 2009) was a
René Sommer (1951 – 5 October 2009) was a Swiss
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inventor
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and computer programmer
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, credited as a co-inventor of the computer mouse
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Along with Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and André Guignard
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, Sommer helped invent the computer mouse
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at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology The Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology are two institutes of higher education in Switzerland (part of the ETH Domain):
* Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
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in Lausanne
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. Sommer was credited for making the mouse "more intelligent" by adding a micro-processor to the mouse's design in 1985.
Sommer died on 5 October 2009 in Saint-Légier, Vaud
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, Switzerland
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, at the age of 58.
Logitech
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, which manufactured the original mouse, called Sommer a ‘brilliant and impassioned engineer’ in reaction to his death.
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