The death of the Apple Engineer, influential Bill Atkinson, in 74

famous apple The engineer who had an effective role in developing the modern era Computing He died. Bill Atkinson, who was part of the Apple Macintosh Development Team, died due to pancreatic cancer in 74, according to Facebook Publisher He was made by his family on June 5.

His contributions to Apple and Macintosh Personal Computer are still widely used today, including basic user interface elements such as menu, double -click and Lasso selection. However, the work of Atkinson is much deeper than that, because it is partially responsible for the founding language language that affected the first Apple days. Its legacy includes the creation of MacPaint, an application that shows the world what the graphics -based system looks at a time when the text -based systems were the base, the development of Quickdraw, the drawing tool box used by the Macintosh and Lisa computers. To make computers more easy to use, ATKINSON also designed Hypercard, which is the Apple app that introduces a radiology for ordinary users and not just programmers. Tim Cook praised Takinson, Publishing on xHe was “real insight, his creativity, heart and pioneering work on Mac will inspire us forever.”

After Apple, ATKINSON was one of three founders for General Magic, a software and electronics company that provided products to Motorola and Sony in the 1990s. Later, he worked with Numenta in 2007, which was a startup to focus on artificial intelligence. Atkinson was also an experienced natural photographer, as he published a book called Inside the stone This highlights polished rocks and cut rocks with clips closely. Atkinson survived his wife and two daughters, Rabib, the daughter of the father, two sisters, four sisters, a dog, the poppy.