“I was talking fifty dollars a page. They talked fifty dollars for the whole manual.”
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Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin was an American human–computer interface expert who conceived and began leading the Macintosh project at Apple in the late 1970s.
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business · American computer scientist (1943–2005) · programmer · computer scientist · writer · university teacher · businessperson · also Jef Raskin, Raskin
Born 9 March 1943 · Died 26 February 2005 · Q92740
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s Journal. He formed a company named Bannister and Crun, which was named for two characters playing in the BBC radio comedy The Goon Show. Career history Apple Contractor writer Raskin first met Apple Computer co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in their garage workshop following the debut of their Apple II personal computer at the first West Coast Computer Faire. Jobs hired Raskin
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2026· 2 entries
“s Journal. He formed a company named Bannister and Crun, which was named for two characters playing in the BBC radio comedy The Goon Show. Career history Apple Contractor writer Raskin first met Apple Computer co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in their garage workshop following the debut of their Apple II personal computer at the first West Coast Computer Faire. Jobs hired Raskin”
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2013· 1 entry
Published “An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Key Concepts and Advances in Pulmonary Rehabilitation” in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine — cited 3,075 times.
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2005· 4 entries
Died 2005-02-26.
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Macintosh project member Andy Hertzfeld remembered Raskin's reputation for often inaccurately claiming to have invented various technologies
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“I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work — on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did — is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.”
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“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.”
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2003· 1 entry
“THE Is Not An Editor... So What Is It?”
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1998· 1 entry
Published “PHYTOREMEDIATION” in Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology — cited 2,018 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Published “The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital” in Nature — cited 16,373 times.
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1988· 1 entry
Published “A principal-components analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and further evidence of its construct validity.” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology — cited 2,210 times.
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1987· 1 entry
The unit had an innovative interface that attracted much interest but it did not become a commercial success
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1985· 2 entries
In 1985, Raskin described his house as "practically one large playground", with secret doors and passageways, an auditorium that seats 185, and a model airplane room.
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Raskin described his house as "practically one large playground", with secret doors and passageways, an auditorium that seats 185, and a model airplane room
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1982· 1 entry
When he started Cognetics Corporation, one of the first user experience design companies
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1981· 1 entry
After the Lisa team had "kicked him out", Steve Jobs's attention drew toward Raskin's Macintosh project, intending to combine the Xerox PARC-inspired GUI-based Lisa design to Raskin's appliance-computing, "computers-by-t
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1978· 2 entries
And '79, Raskin was lobbying for Apple to create a radically different kind of computer that was designed from the start to be easy to use
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Published an article in BYTE on using computers with the instrument
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1970· 1 entry
At the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas
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1967· 1 entry
Received a master's degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University, after having switched from mathematical logic due to differences of opinion with his advisor
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-03-09.
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