Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin is the human-computer interface expert who began the Macintosh project for Apple Computer and is the author of The Humane Interface, which in large part builds on his earlier work with the Canon Cat. Raskin received a B.S. Mathematics and B.A. in Philosophy from the State University of New York and an M.S. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University. As an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), he taught classes ranging from computer science to photography.
Raskin joined Apple in January 1978 as the 31st employee. He later hired his former student Bill Atkinson from UCSD to work at Apple, and began the Macintosh project.
Raskin designed the Canon Cat, released in 1987.
At the beginning of the new millenium, Raskin undertook the building of The Humane Environment (THE). THE is a system incarnating his concepts of the humane interface, by using Open source elements within his rendition of a ZUI or Zooming User Interface.
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Apple Computer | Apple Computer Co. | Apple Computers | Apple Macintosh OS | Bill Atkinson | Canon Cat | GUI/History | History of the GUI | History of the graphical user interface | List of basic software engineering topics | List of software engineering topics | MacOS | Mac OS | McIntosh | The Humane Environment | Zooming User Interface
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