1. William "Bill" D Atkinson was born on March 17,1951 and is an American computer engineer, computer programmer and photographer.
10 Facts About Bill Atkinson
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Bill Atkinson received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef Raskin was one of his professors.
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Bill Atkinson continued his studies as a graduate student in neurochemistry at the University of Washington.
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Raskin invited Bill Atkinson to visit him at Apple Computer; Steve Jobs persuaded him to join the company immediately as employee No 51, and Bill Atkinson never finished his PhD.
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Bill Atkinson was the principal designer and developer of the graphical user interface of the Apple Lisa and, later, one of the first thirty members of the original Apple Macintosh development team, and was the creator of the MacPaint application.
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Bill Atkinson designed and implemented QuickDraw, the fundamental toolbox that the Lisa and Macintosh used for graphics.
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Bill Atkinson was one of the main designers of the Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces.
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Bill Atkinson conceived, designed and implemented HyperCard, an early and influential hypermedia system.
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In 1994, Bill Atkinson received the EFF Pioneer Award for his contributions.
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In 2007, Bill Atkinson began working as an outside developer with Numenta, a startup working on computer intelligence.