"For what it was invented for, the mouse does a good job, " said John Elias, co-inventor of the MultiTouch system and a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Delaware.

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The report was put together by David Moore and Stefan Savage of the University of San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vern Paxson of the ICSI Center for Internet Research in California, Colleen Shannon of CAIDA, and Stuart Staniford and Nicholas Weaver of computer security firm Silicon Defense.

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