Operating systems and graphic user interfaces
Authors: Grayson J. P. , Espinosa C. , Dunsmuir M. , Edwards M. , Tribble B. 
Published: November 2005

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of myself and
the panelists and SIGGRAPH, I'd like to welcome each of you to our
session this afternoon.
This afternoon we're going to be talking about operating systems
and graphics user interfaces. Of course, I'm the panel chairperson.
My name -- J. Paul Grayson, the chairman and CEO of Micrografx, and
I feel very fortunate this afternoon to have a number of
distinguished speakers here with me. I'd like to briefly introduce
each one of those.
As you're probably aware from looking at the program, there have
been some last minute changes in the speakers. But I think we're
very fortunate to have a number of unique and talented individuals
with us this afternoon. So I feel very good about the speakers that
we have.
The first speaker this afternoon is Chris Espinosa, who is a
technical consultant at Apple, but I think that description really
doesn't do Chris justice at all. Many of you are aware that Chris
has been in the personal computer business about as long as it has
existed. He was one of the original members of the Home Brew
Computer Club, was actually employee number eight at Apple
Computer, and is now the most senior employee at Apple
Computer.
While at Apple he's had a number of significant accomplishments.
He was originally responsible for the Apple II, was on the original
Macintosh development team, was the author of the Macintosh user
interface specifications, and has also been the product manager for
Hypercard.
The second speaker today will be Martin Dunsmuir, who is the
director of Presentation Manager development for Microsoft. Martin
has been with Microsoft for approximately four years. He is from
the U.K., from Britain. So you may notice a slight accent. He was
previously the director of Zenix Development for Microsoft. He was
responsible for Zenix 386. He is also responsible for PMX, was part
of the technical team that sold the PM behavior, the PM user
interface to the OSF Motif Group, and has been the OS/2
Presentation Manager director since about March.
The third speaker changed so recently I didn't have a chance to
update his slide. So rather than Tommy Steele today, from IBM we
have Dr. Mike Edwards. Mike is a software engineer in the PM
technical office. He's been on assignment in Boca Raton for
approximately 18 months, having originally been in Hursley as a
Hursley PM developer, and I think he was planning on going back to
Hursley in the next few days and got called in to do this. So I
think his wife had to take care of some of the business, like
selling the car and the house, while he came to Boston.
Mike also has a very interesting background. He got into
graphics while he was a student at Birmingham University in
England, and he was part of a team of people that won a Nobel Prize
in 1983 for particle physics. And I hope you'll hold your questions
about particle physics until after the presentation is over.
The last speaker today is also a very distinguished gentleman.
Guy or "Bud" Tribble is a founder of NeXT, where he now oversees
all of the systems software development. Previous to that he was a
software manager for Apple where he oversaw the system and
application software development for the Macintosh and for the
Apple II.
The panel format this afternoon -- we'll hear each of the
speakers in the order that I've mentioned. Between each speaker I
will probably ask one or two questions to try to draw out
particular topics from the speakers. Then after the final speaker,
we'll open it up for questions from the audience.
Please join me now in welcoming our first speaker, Chris
Espinosa.