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Remembering Bill Atkinson, the Mac visionary that revolutionized personal computing
You may not know his name, but Steve Jobs was so desparate to hire Bill Atkinson that he went to extraordinary lengths to ...
Inside the making of India’s default internet interface
Graphical User Interface-based systems come designed with dropdown menus, buttons, toggles and input fields. They require a level of literacy and linguistic ease that many users in India simply don’t ...
Bill Atkinson won the respect of Steve Jobs by creating a high-level programming language in just 6 days
Bill Atkinson died on June 5 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Atkinson was one of the earliest Apple employees, ...
Bill Atkinson, visionary engineer behind the Apple Macintosh operating system, dies at 74
Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system ...
Bill Atkinson, pioneering early Apple engineer, dies at 74
The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William ...
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present ...
Bill Atkinson, the Creative Force Behind Apple’s Graphical Interface and HyperCard, Dies at 73
Bill Atkinson, a seminal figure in Apple’s early history and one of the masterminds behind the user-friendly design of the ...