Bill Atkinson

For other people named Bill Atkinson, see Bill Atkinson (disambiguation).

Bill Atkinson
Born (1951-03-17) March 17, 1951 (age 73)
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, San Diego
University of Washington
Occupation(s)Engineer, inventor, nature photographer
Known forPart of the Apple Lisa and Macintosh 128K development teams; conceived, designed, implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system; his 2004 book, Within the Stone
Websitebillatkinson.com

William "Bill" D. Atkinson[1] (born March 17, 1951) is an American computer engineer, computer programmer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. 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),[2] Marching ants, the double-click, Menu bar, the selection lasso, MacPaint (FatBits), HyperCard, Atkinson dithering, and the app PhotoCard.

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