Bruce Horn
Bruce Lawrence Horn (b. 1960 [1]) was a programmer with Apple Computer and the creator of the Macintosh Finder and the Macintosh Resource Manager. His signature is amongst those molded to the case of the Macintosh 128K.
A member of the original Apple Macintosh design team,[ 1] Horn received a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University in 1982 and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University in Computer Science in 1994. Horn was a student in the Learning Research Group (1973–1981), where Smalltalk was developed. While there, he worked on various projects including the NoteTaker, a portable Smalltalk machine, and wrote the initial Dorado Smalltalk microcode for Smalltalk.
He owns, and programs software for, Ingenuity Software. He is employed with Powerset as the principal development manager of the Natural Language Technology group. Powerset was acquired by Microsoft in the fall of 2008 and is part of Live Search.
Horn serves on the board of advisors of The Hyperwords Company Ltd of the UK, which works to make the web more usefully interactive and which has produced the free Firefox Add-On called 'Hyperwords'.[2]
References
- ↑ Horn, Bruce, "The Original Macintosh: Joining the Mac Group"
- ↑ "About Us : Advisory Board", Hyperwords website
- ↑ Lemmons, Phil (February 1984). "An Interview: The Macintosh Design Team". BYTE (interview). p. 58. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
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- Home page
- Bruce Horn on 1984, Today, and Beyond - April 26, 2004
- The Mac at 20: An Interview with Bruce Horn
- Joining the Mac Group: The Reality Distortion Field changes Bruce's mind about working at Apple, written by Bruce Horn
- The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources
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