- Steve Wozniak
Dr. Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11 1950 in San Jose, California) is a U.S. computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II gained a sizable amount of popularity, …
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Paul Ive CBE (born February 1967) is Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, iPod and the iPhone.
- Philip W. Schiller
Philip W. Schiller (born 1960) is the senior vice president of worldwide product marketing at Apple Inc. He is a prominent figure in Apple's public presentations. He reports to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and has been a member of the company's executive leadership team since Jobs's return to Apple in 1997.
- Andy Hertzfeld
Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) was a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a key designer of the Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990 and Eazel in 1999. Hertzfeld joined Google in 2005 and has been working there since.
- Avadis Tevanian
Avadis "Avie" Tevanian was the Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Computer from 1997 to 2003, and then the Chief Software Technology Officer from 2003 to 2006. He is also a member of the board of embedded software tools company Green Hills Software. Tevanian was responsible for setting company-wide software technology direction at Apple. Originally from Maine, Avie Tevanian received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester, …
- Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson is the Senior Vice President of Retail Operations at Apple Computer. He pioneered the concept of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar, even in the face of stiff criticism from CEO Steve Jobs. Ron joined Apple in September 2000. He previously worked as vice president of merchandising for Target. Under Johnson's direction, Apple's retail stores achieved a record level of growth, exceeding a billion dollars in annual sales within two years of their debut, …
- Bill Atkinson
Bill Atkinson (born 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef Raskin was one of his professors. Atkinson continued his studies as a graduate student at the University of Washington. He designed and implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system.
- Larry Tesler
Lawrence G. (Larry) Tesler (born April 24, 1945) is a computer scientist working in the field of human-computer interaction. Tesler has worked at Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, Amazon.com, and Yahoo! Tesler studied computer science at Stanford University in the 1960s, and worked for a time at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. From 1973 to 1980, he was at Xerox PARC, where, among other things, he worked on the Gypsy word processor and Smalltalk.
- Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943-February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s.
- Tony Fadell
Tony Fadell is Apple Inc.'s Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006. Fadell graduated from University of Michigan with a BS in Computer Engineering in 1991. While still at Michigan, he was CEO of Constructive Instruments, which marketed MediaText, multimedia composition software for children. He worked for Apple spinoff General Magic for three years, …
- Susan Kare
Susan Kare User Interface Graphics is a digital design practice in San Francisco, California. According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Susan Kare is "a pioneering and influential computer iconographer. Since 1983, Kare has designed thousands of icons for the world's leading software companies. Utilizing a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style."
- Keith Stattenfield
Keith Stattenfield is a senior Apple Computer software engineer. He was technical lead of Mac OS 9, the lead for Netbooting of Mac OS 8.6 and later, and before that worked as an engineer on the Macintosh Operating system back to Mac OS 7.5 in 1995. He started at Apple Computer in 1989 in the Information Systems & Technology group. He has often presented at conferences such as Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference and MacHack (convention).
- Bertrand Serlet
Bertrand Serlet is senior vice president of software engineering at Apple Inc. He succeeded Avie Tevanian to the position in July 2003. In this position he has been primarily responsible for the release of the 10.4 versions of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server and the upcoming 10.5 versions. Before Apple he worked at Xerox and NeXT. He spoke at WWDC 2006 on the similarities between Mac OS X Tiger and Windows Vista, …
- Donald Norman
Donald A. Norman is a professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, but nowadays works mostly with cognitive science in the domain of usability engineering. He also teaches at Stanford University and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica. He currently splits his time between consulting and his teaching and research at Northwestern and Stanford.
- Jens Alfke
Jens Alfke is a software developer, who has been employed by Apple Computer since 1991. He is best known for creating the Stickies software application for Mac OS and the iChat application for Mac OS X. He has most recently worked on the Safari RSS team.
- Bruce Tognazzini
Bruce Tognazzini is a usability consultant in partnership with Donald Norman and Jakob Nielsen in the Nielsen Norman Group, which specializes in human computer interaction. He was with Apple Computer for many years, then with Sun Microsystems and then WebMD. He has written two books, "Tog on Interface" and "Tog on Software Design", and he publishes the webzine "Asktog", with the tagline "Interaction Design Solutions for the Real World".
- Bud Tribble
Guy L. "Bud" Tribble, MD, PhD, is Vice President of Software Technology at Apple Inc. Tribble served as the manager of the original Macintosh software development team where he helped to design the Mac® OS and user interface. He was among the founders of NeXT computer, serving as NeXT's vice president of software development.
- Dominic Giampaolo
Dominic B. Giampaolo is a software developer who is famous for developing the Be File System for the BeOS operating system and currently works at Apple Inc. After graduating from Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine in 1987, He started studying political science at American University in Washington, DC, but changed to computer science after one semester. After completing his bachelor's degree, he did a master's degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
- Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia is a co-founder of Hotmail and an entrepreneur.
- Dave Hyatt
Dave Hyatt is an American software developer currently employed by Apple Inc. (since July 15, 2002), where he is part of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit framework. Hyatt was part of the original team that shipped the beta releases and 1.0 release of Safari. He is currently the Safari and WebKit Architect. Before Apple, Hyatt worked at Netscape Communications from 1997 to 2002 where he contributed to the Mozilla web browser.
- Jean-Louis Gassée
Jean-Louis Gassée was an executive at Apple Computer from 1981 to 1990. He is most famous for founding Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. After leaving BeOS, he became Chairman of PalmSource, Inc. in November, 2004.
- Steve Sakoman
Steve Sakoman is a computing executive. He recently retired from Apple Computer. He originally worked at Hewlett-Packard as a manufacturing engineer and project manager for the industry's first battery powered portable MS-DOS PC, the HP-110. He then moved to Silicon Graphics and as director of Consumer Products & Technologies Group. This included work on the Nintendo 64 graphics system.
- Timothy D. Cook
Timothy D. Cook is the Chief Operating Officer of Apple Inc. and he reports to the CEO, Steve Jobs. Before joining Apple, he worked at Compaq as the VP for Corporate Materials and spent twelve years in IBM's personal computer business as the director of North American Fulfillment. He earned his M.B.A. from Duke University and B.S. in industrial engineering from Auburn University. Cook briefly filled in as Apple CEO when Steve Jobs had pancreatic cancer surgery in 2004.
- Ramanathan V. Guha
Ramanathan V. Guha (1965) is an Indian computer scientist. Since May 2005, he has been working at Google. Guha was one of the early co-leaders of the Cyc Project where he worked from 1987 through 1994 at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation. He was responsible for the design and implementation of key parts of the Cyc system, including the CycL knowledge representation language, …
- Chris Espinosa
Chris Espinosa is a senior employee of Apple Computer, officially employee number 8. He joined the company at the age of fourteen in 1976 when it was still housed in Steve Jobs' parents' garage, writing software manuals and coding after school. Espinosa entered the University of California, Berkeley, where his freshman advisor was Andy Hertzfeld. In 1981, Espinosa became a member of the Apple Macintosh team, and has worked on many projects at Apple since, including Mac OS, …
- Mike Matas
Mike Matas (born March 23, 1986) is the co-founder of the software company Delicious Monster along with Wil Shipley. He previously worked for The Omni Group, designing icons and user interfaces. Currently he works for Apple Inc.
- Ronald Wayne
Ronald Gerald Wayne (born 1934) is the often forgotten "third founder" of Apple Computer (in addition to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak). He illustrated the first Apple logo and wrote the Apple I manual. While at Apple he also wrote their partnership agreement. Wayne worked with Jobs at Atari before co-founding Apple Computer on April 1, 1976. He was given a 10% stake in Apple, …
- Burrell Smith
Burrell Carver Smith is an engineer who, while working at Apple Computer, designed the digital board for the original Macintosh. He was Apple employee #282, and was hired February, 1979, initially as an Apple II service technician. According to Folklore.org, one day, Smith put a handwritten manual on Andy Hertzfeld's desk explaining the digital board of the Apple II; Hertzfeld was very impressed at how well Burrell explained the digital board of the Apple II, …
- Sal Soghoian
Sal Soghoian is the AppleScript Product Manager at Apple, Inc.. Widely acknowledged as an "AppleScript Guru", Sal was an advocate for AppleScript years before being employed by Apple. Soghoian's job includes making public appearances to demonstrate Apple technologies, including the 2004 WWDC, when he appeared on stage with Steve Jobs to demonstrate Automator, a new workflow feature in Mac OS X v10.4. He's also been a special guest at the Leopard Tech Talks.
- Trip Hawkins
William M. 'Trip' Hawkins III (born 1953) is a Silicon Valley American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company and Digital Chocolate. Hawkins was the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Apple Computer in 1982 when he left to found Electronic Arts (EA), a video game publisher. Electronic Arts had a successful run for many years under Hawkins' leadership. It is now the world's largest video game publisher.
- Randy Wigginton
Randy Wigginton was one of Apple Computer's first employees (#6), creator of MacWrite, Full Impact and numerous other Mac applications. He used to work in development at eBay and now works at Quigo, Inc. Wigginton was a student at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, interested in computers just as the earliest microprocessor-based computers were being assembled by hobbyists.
- Michael Dhuey
Michael Joseph Dhuey (born 20 July 1958, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an electrical and computer engineer. He is chiefly known as the co-inventor (with Brian Berkeley) of the Macintosh II computer in 1987, the first Macintosh computer with expansion slots. He also helped to develop the hardware for the original iPod in 2001, particularly the battery. He received his computer engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980, …
- Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik, of San Francisco, is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati. He is mostly known for his time at Microsoft (1997-2004), where he worked on the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer.
- Alan Curtis Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, …
- Dave Zarzycki
Dave Zarzycki is a Senior Engineer in the BSD Technology Group at Apple Computer. He is the designer and maintainer of launchd, a core operating system component, which was introduced with the 10.4 release of Apple's Mac OS X operating system. In March 2000, after working as an intern at Apple for a number of years, Dave became a full time employee assigned to work on the Darwin operating system that Mac OS X is built on. Although other developers already worked on Darwin, …
- Scott Forstall
Scott Forstall is Vice President of iPhone Software at Apple Inc. Forstall recently spoke at WWDC 2007, regarding 3rd Party Developer Applications for the upcoming iPhone. He explained how developers could develop applications for the iPhone using AJAX. Fortsall also spoke at WWDC 2006, where he was then titled VP of Platform Experience, on the upcoming version of Mac OS X, Mac OS X Leopard, covering a number of new features including Time Machine, …
- Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. (as VP of Marketing), Claris (as CEO), and GO Corporation (as CEO). Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. After graduation he coached Columbia's football team for two unremarkable seasons.
- Darin Adler
Darin Adler was the technical lead for Apple Computer's System 7 operating system release. During 1985-1987 he worked for ICOM Simulations as primary developer of the MacVenture series of games, including Shadowgate. Adler went on to work at General Magic and Eazel. As of 2004, he is the engineering manager of the Safari web browser team at Apple, which also develops the WebKit framework.
- Eagle Berns
Eagle Berns (September 19, 2004) worked for over thirty-five years in the computer software industry at Apple Computer, Oracle Corporation, and Software Publishing Corporation (SPC). During his tenure at those companies he established a reputation for forming strong R&D teams, and focusing their energies on producing high quality software products in a timely fashion. After obtaining his BS and MS in computer Science at Washington University, …