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.
At the beginning of the new millenium Raskin undertook the building of 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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