Influential Apple engineer Bill Atkinson dies at 74

Famous Apple Engineer with instrumental in the development of modern day calculation died. Bill Atkinson, which is part of Apple’s original Macintosh Development Group, died of pancreatic cancer, according to a Facebook Post Developed by the family of June 5.

Apple and Macintosh contributions to their personal computer, today, including menu rod, double-clicking and selection Lasso are also widely used. However, Atkinson’s work is deeper, because it is partly responsible for the basic design language affecting the first days of Apple. His legacy, MacPaint, a graphically based system that will be the norm of text-based systems in the world, showed a graphic tool box that uses QuickDraw, Macintosh and Liza computers. Computers are an apple application that provides a hypertext to the daily users, not aTkinson, as well as the programmers to make more user-friendly. Tim Cook gave Atkinson tribute, Accommodation in XHe will inspire us on the true vision of “creativity, heart and groundbreaking”, the groundbreaking work on Mac. “

Outside Apple, Atkinson, in the 90s, the total magic, which brings products to Motorola and Sony, was a three co-founder for a program and electronics company. Then he worked with Numenta in 2007, it was a start artificial intelligence. Atkinson was a spicy nature photographer, published a book called Is the stone Cut these points polished and polished and cut rocks with close shots. Atkinson’s wife, two daughters, stepmiths, stepmiths, two brothers, four sisters and dogs were saved from poppy.