Jef Raskin

Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943 – February 26, 2005) is the expert who began the Apple Macintosh project for Apple Computer and is the author of , which largely builds on his work with the .
==Education==
Raskin received a B.S. Mathematics and a B.A. in Philosophy from the and a M.S. in Computer Science from the . As an assistant professor at the (UCSD), he taught classes ranging from computer science to photography.
==Career==
===Apple Computer===
Raskin joined Apple Computer as the 31st employee on January 3, 1978, the company's first anniversary. His Macintosh project proposal was approved by Mike Markkula in 1979. He hired his former student Bill Atkinson along with Bud Tribble from UCSD to join the Mac development team at Apple. However, he clashed with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs over the design of the Macintosh and left the project by 1981.Macintosh’s Other Designers by John Markoff and Ezra Shapiro at Byte p.347-356. 1984-08.
===After Apple===
After leaving Apple, Raskin joined Canon to design the . Released in 1987, the Cat was closer to Raskin's vision of how the Macintosh should have been designed as a simpler .
At the beginning of the new millennium, Raskin undertook the building of (formerly The Humane Environment, or THE). Archy is a system incarnating his concepts of the humane interface, by using open source elements within his rendition of a ZUI or .
Jef Raskin passed away on February 26, 2005, at the age of 61, reportedly due to cancer.
==Media portrayals==
Raskin was portrayed by actor in the 2013 film dramatization Jobs.Jobs (2013): Full Cast & Crew, Internet Movie Database. Accessed 2022-10-06.
==Video gallery==
Jef Raskin Interview + Homebrew Computer Club from Screen Savers|
Canon Cat|Demonstration of Jef Raskin's vision.
Leap Technology|The Cat's user interface, designed by Raskin.
==References==
==See also==
*List of early Apple Computer employees
== External links ==
*Jef official site at Source Forge (archived 2002-10-17)
*Jef Raskin articles A to Z at Usability Views
**Jef Raskin - Userati
*Jef Raskin at All about Steve Jobs
*'Jef Raskin' Apple-1 - number 51 at the Apple-1 Registry
*Jef Raskin at Folklore
* at Wikipedia
===Articles and interviews===
*Articles from Jef Raskin about the history of the Macintosh by Matt Mora (archived 2001-11-29)
*The Mac's creator on Apple, Jobs and his new project by Dennis Sellers at MacMinute (2004-02-11, archived 2004-02-27)
*Talk time: Jef Raskin by Jason Walsh at The Guardian (2004-10-21, archived 2004-10-27)
*The History of Apple's Pascal "Syntax" Poster, 1979-80. by Lucas Wagner and Jef Raskin (revision 3, archived 2006-06-19)
Category:Former Apple employees