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jean-marie hullot in january 2008 paris , france french 16 february 1954 interface builder , nextstep , ical , isync france jean-marie_hullot . jpg jean-marie hullot
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jean-marie hullot

jean-marie hullot -lrb- born february 16 , 1954 -rrb- is a french computer scientist and programmer who authored important programs for the original macintosh , nextstep and mac os x platforms .
these include the sos interface for the mac , which later became interface builder for nextstep -lrb- 1985 -rrb- , and later still evolved into an important part of mac os x .
he also led the ical and isync development teams for mac os x -lrb- 2002 -rrb- .
in 1981 , jean-marie hullot received a ph.d. in computer science from the university of paris at orsay , where his adviser was gérard huet .
he was a researcher at inria from 1979 to 1985 , when he joined next .
in 1996 he co-founded realnames , a url translation service which closed in 2002 .
he worked as cto of application division at apple inc. from 2001 to 2005 .
he was the president and ceo of fotopedia , a collaborative photo encyclopaedia .
