René Sommer

René Sommer ( * 1951, † October 5, 2009 in Blonay ) was a Swiss electronics engineer. He was decisive role in the development of Logitech mice.

Life and work

As a high school student, he won the 1968 Swiss Youth in Science with a game machine a price for an electronic Nim game. He studied at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ( EPFL), where he worked as an assistant to Jean -Daniel Nicoud in the Laboratoire de Microinformatique ( LAMI ).

From 1982, he worked with Logitech. He was the first engineer of the company and was soon consulting director. He developed the first mouse with an integrated microprocessor; before the raw electrical signals were sent directly to the computer. He has also worked on other decisive developments, such as the wireless mouse, the opto-mechanical mouse and wireless device connections.