12 Facts About Don Hopkins

Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in human computer interaction and computer graphics.

Don Hopkins is an alumnus of the University of Maryland and a former member of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab.

Don Hopkins inspired Richard Stallman, who described him as a "very imaginative fellow", to use the term copyleft.

Don Hopkins coined Deep Crack as the name of the EFF DES cracker.

Don Hopkins ported the SimCity computer game to several versions of Unix and developed a multi player version of SimCity for X11, did much of the core programming of The Sims, and developed robot control and personality simulation software for Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club.

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Don Hopkins developed and refined pie menus for many platforms and applications including window managers, Emacs, SimCity and The Sims, and published a frequently cited paper about pie menus at CHI'88 with John Raymond Callahan, Ben Shneiderman and Mark Weiser.

Don Hopkins is known for having written a chapter "The X-Windows Disaster" on X Window System in the book The UNIX-HATERS Handbook.

Don Hopkins, supported by John Gilmore, adapted SimCity for the OLPC XO-1 laptop.

Don Hopkins programmed Micropolis to make it easy to extend in many interesting ways.

Don Hopkins added functionality to let kids create new disasters and agents, and program them like in many of the other games on the XO.

Don Hopkins became involved in The Sims after he worked at Sun Microsystems.

Don Hopkins implemented the usage of pie menus to the game so that users could efficiently carry out actions in the game world.