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Influential Apple engineer Bill Atkinson dies at 74
A renowned Apple engineer who was instrumental in developing modern-day computing has died. Bill Atkinson, who was part of ...
Legendary Apple engineer Bill Atkinson has died at 74.
Atkinson’s family announced that he passed away last Thursday due to pancreatic cancer. Employee number 51 at Apple, Atkinson worked on the Macintosh, MacPaint, and HyperCard. Wired and Daring ...
Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained ...
Bill Atkinson, the Apple Computer designer, dies at 74
Legendary software pioneer Bill Atkinson died at the age of 74 on Thursday at his home in Portola Valley, Calif., in the San ...
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Bill Atkinson, pioneer of Apple's Macintosh, passes away at 74
Bill Atkinson, renowned software pioneer and Apple Computer designer, passed away at 74 due to pancreatic cancer at his ...
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 ...
Deeply saddened by passing of Bill Atkinson: Tim Cook
Tech giant Apple CEO Tim Cook on Sunday paid tributes to Bill Atkinson -- the creator of Macintosh QuickDraw and HyperCard in ...
Bill Atkinson, the man who designed Apple’s early Mac interface and created MacPaint, has died at 73
Atkinson helped develop the graphical interface for both the Lisa and the original Macintosh. He created QuickDraw, the ...
Pioneering Apple engineer Bill Atkinson dies at 74
Bill Atkinson, an engineer who played a key role in the development of the Macintosh and other landmark Apple products, has ...
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 ...