Its partners include some of the biggest players in the worlds of computing, communications, and consumer electronics, and it's loaded with top-notch engineers who have been given a clean slate to reinvent traditional approaches to ubiquitous worldwide communications. The obstacles to General Magic's success may appear daunting, but General Magic is not your typical start-up company. Career Īround 1990, General Magic's founding, with Bill Atkinson as one of the three cofounders, met the following press in Byte magazine:
Raskin invited Atkinson to visit him at Apple Computer Steve Jobs persuaded him to join the company immediately as employee No. Atkinson continued his studies as a graduate student in neurochemistry at the University of Washington. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef Raskin was one of his professors.
In 1994, Atkinson received the EFF Pioneer Award for his contributions. HyperCard put the power of computer programming and database design into the hands of non programmers. Atkinson also conceived, designed and implemented HyperCard, an early and influential hypermedia system. He also was one of the main designers of the Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces. QuickDraw's performance was essential for the success of the Macintosh GUI. He also designed and implemented QuickDraw, the fundamental toolbox that the Lisa and Macintosh used for graphics. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990.Ītkinson was the principal designer and developer of the graphical user interface (GUI) 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. Part of the Apple Lisa and Macintosh development teams conceived, designed, implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system his 2004 book, Within the Stoneīill Atkinson (born March 17, 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer.
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