February 27, 2005

Jef Raskin, 1943 - 2005

Digibarn reports (via Scripting News) the sad news that the original father of the Macintosh and pioneer of human(e) computer interfaces, Jef Raskin, passed away on Saturday, February 26, 2005.

Jef Raskin is best known as being the visionary who started the Macintosh project at Apple Computer. He is also author of The Humane Interface, a book containing lots of wisdom on human-computer interaction. His last project was The Humane Environment (THE), recently renamed Archy.

Posted by guenter at February 27, 2005 06:29 PM
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