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Bill Atkinson
American computer engineer and photographer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people named Bill Atkinson, see Bill Atkinson (disambiguation).
William "Bill" D. Atkinson[1] (born March 17, 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. Some of Atkinson's noteworthy contributions to the field of computing include Macintosh QuickDraw and Lisa LisaGraf (Atkinson independently discovered the midpoint circle algorithm for fast drawing of circles by using the sum of consecutive odd numbers),[2] Marching ants, the double-click, Menu bar, the selection lasso, MacPaint (FatBits), HyperCard, Atkinson dithering, and the app PhotoCard.
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Born | (1951-03-17) March 17, 1951 (age 73) |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of California, San Diego University of Washington |
Occupation(s) | Engineer, inventor, nature photographer |
Known for | Part of the Apple Lisa and Macintosh 128K development teams; conceived, designed, implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system; his 2004 book, Within the Stone |
Website | billatkinson |
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