Larry Tesler, a pioneer of personal computing credited with creating the cut, copy and paste as well as the search and replace functions, has died. He was 74.

"The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more, was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler," the company tweeted. "Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas." ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Tesler, the Silicon Valley pioneer who created the now-ubiquitous computer concepts such as “cut,” “copy” and “paste,” has died. He was 74.

The new cut and paste metaphor also used fewer keys than Kanerva’s system. It may seem obvious now, but the right way to move text around was highly debatable back then.

Larry Tesler, the former Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Apple computer scientist best-known for creating the cut, copy and paste commands for personal computers, died earlier this week. He was… ...

Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who invented the concept of cut, copy, and paste, died on Monday at 74. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo, and more.

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember the legacy of computer scientist Larry Tesler, the man who came up the copy-and-paste function. Tesler died this week at the age of 74.