A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.” By John Markoff Bill Atkinson, the Apple Computer ...

Bill Atkinson, a pioneering computer engineer and programmer at Apple, instrumental in the creation of the Macintosh computer in January 1984, died June 5. Atkinson, 74, passed away at his home in ...

Bill Atkinson dies at 74: Bill Atkinson has made a lasting impression on the computer industry as one of the creative forces behind Apple's early inventions. His groundbreaking work with Steve Jobs, ...

Photo courtesy Jerry Manock Jerry Manock is one of the great unsung heroes of Apple design. As the father of Apple’s Industrial Design Group, Manock made an indelible contribution to the company’s ...

What’s a Mac app that was included on the very first Macintosh back in 1984 – long before the internet – and still exists on today’s machines, albeit with a different name? Designer and author Marcin ...

In 1982, a 21-year-old Chris Espinosa faced a familiar challenge in software design: satisfying Steve Jobs’ exacting eye. Jobs had been critiquing Espinosa’s Macintosh calculator interface for days, ...