Bill Atkinson at the Apple Expo in France in 1987. Bill Atkinson died on June 5 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Atkinson was one of the earliest Apple employees, responsible for key Mac ...

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, a legendary Apple programmer, let the world know Tuesday he’s in treatment for pancreatic cancer, the same disease that killed his boss, Steve Jobs, in 2011. Atkinson published a post ...

Bill Atkinson, an Apple Computer designer who created the software that enabled the transformative visual approach pioneered by the company's Lisa and Macintosh computers, making the machines ...

His influence extended far beyond Apple. His pioneering work in graphics libraries was responsible for Apple's Lisa and Mac interfaces. All modern graphical user interfaces (GUIs) owe a debt of ...

Late last year, Bill Atkinson shared news of his health with the world (see “Bill Atkinson Diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer,” 14 November 2024). Unfortunately, pancreatic cancer is particularly deadly ...

Atkinson’s family announced that he passed away last Thursday due to pancreatic cancer. Employee number 51 at Apple, Atkinson worked on the Macintosh, MacPaint, and HyperCard.

Original Mac developer and creator of (among other things) MacPaint Bill Atkinson published some sad news on Facebook today. He’s been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is requesting prayers. From ...

SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD 2010 — Veteran Mac programmer Bill Atkinson took the stage at Macworld for the first time in 23 years to show off PhotoCard — an app for sending fine-art postcards through the ...

Programming legend Bill Atkinson demos a mockup of his PhotoCard app at Macworld on a dummy iPad he made for himslef. Photo: Leander Kahney. SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD 2010 — Programmer Bill Atkinson, ...

Today on “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we're looking at Apple's latest software and operating system updates. Also, there's a tentative labor deal between video game actors and studios.

Bill Atkinson died on June 5 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Atkinson was one of the earliest Apple employees, responsible for key Mac software and its graphical user interfaces. But he ...