Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system ...

Atkinson's family announced the news on Facebook on Sunday.

Here he programmed the MacPaint painting software, for which he presented himself as an "artist and inventor" in a commercial. This was true, because with its palettes and brushes, ...

Atkinson also wrote MacPaint, the forerunner of all graphics programs, including Photoshop. If you do anything with making or editing images on a computer, you owe him a debt of gratitude.

Following MacPaint, he came up with the HyperCard software in 1987, a forerunner of the World Wide Web. “Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985, I designed the HyperCard authoring system ...

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Atkinson is credited with inventing many of the key aspects of graphical computing, such as “pull-down” menus and the “double ...

Atkinson’s family announced that he passed away last Thursday due to pancreatic cancer. Employee number 51 at Apple, Atkinson worked on the Macintosh, MacPaint, and HyperCard. Wired and Daring ...

A renowned Apple engineer who was instrumental in developing modern-day computing has died. Bill Atkinson, who was part of Apple's original Macintosh development team, died of pancreatic cancer at 74, ...

Legendary software pioneer Bill Atkinson died at the age of 74 on Thursday at his home in Portola Valley, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bill Atkinson, a seminal figure in Apple’s early history and one of the masterminds behind the user-friendly design of the Mac's graphical interface, died on June 5 at the age of 73.