Read the bio below and try to give details on bill atkinson 's: - known for - education - birth date - name - nationality - website - occupation Bio: bill atkinson -lrb- born 1951 -rrb- is an american computer engineer and photographer . atkinson worked at apple computer from 1978 to 1990 . he received his undergraduate degree from the university of california , san diego , where apple macintosh developer jef raskin was one of his professors . atkinson continued his studies as a graduate student in neurochemistry at the university of washington , nearly getting a phd . atkinson was part of the apple macintosh development team , and was the creator of the ground-breaking macpaint application , among others . he also designed and implemented quickdraw , the fundamental toolbox that the lisa and macintosh used for graphics . quickdraw 's performance was essential for the success of the macintosh 's graphical user interface . he also was one of the main designers of the lisa and macintosh user interfaces . atkinson also conceived , designed and implemented hypercard , the first popular hypermedia system . around 1990 , general magic 's founding , with bill atkinson as one of the three co-founders , met the following press in '' byte '' magazine : the obstacles to general magic 's success may appear daunting , but general magic is not your typical start-up company . its partners include some of the biggest players in the worlds of computing , communications , and consumer electronics , and it 's loaded with top-notch engineers who have been given a clean slate to reinvent traditional approaches to ubiquitous worldwide communications . in 2007 atkinson began working as an outside developer with numenta , a startup working on computer intelligence . on his work there atkinson said , '' what numenta is doing is more fundamentally important to society than the personal computer and the rise of the internet . '' 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 ....
- known for is part , designed and implemented hypercard , the first popular hypermedia of system . the apple macintosh development team ; conceived- education is university of california , san diego university of washington- birth date is 1951- name is bill atkinson- nationality is american- website is http://www.billatkinson.com/- occupation is engineer , inventor