- David Pogue
David Pogue is a technology writer, journalist and commentator. He is a personal technology columnist for the "New York Times" an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning", and tech guest reporter for NPR's "Morning Edition." He has written or co-written seven books in the "...for Dummies" series (including Macintosh computers, magic, opera, and classical music); in 1999, he launched his own series of computer how-to books, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- John Gruber
John Gruber (born 1973) is a technical writer and technology pundit, and author of Apple- and Web-related blog Daring Fireball, which he writes as a full-time job. His blog often seeks to refute criticism of Steve Jobs, Apple, and its products. He is also the creator of Markdown, a text-to-HTML formatting syntax for web writers, as well as other web-related side projects.
- 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."
- 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.
- Joanna Hoffman
Joanna Hoffman was an Apple Computer employee in the 1980s when she worked on the Apple Macintosh team in 1984. Before being hired as the fifth member of the team in September 1980 by Jef Raskin, she was a physicist and archeologist. She was the only marketing person for more than a year, and she made many important contributions, including writing the first draft of the User Interface Guidelines. She is now the mother of two children, …
- Bob Levitus
Bob LeVitus (also known as "Dr.Mac") is an American author of more than 40 computer-related books, particularly on the Apple Macintosh, for the book series "...For Dummies". He started his own Mac troubleshooting business, called "Dr. Mac Consulting". He has been a columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996.
- 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, …
- Jason Snell
Jason Snell (born October 6, 1970 in Oakland, California) is a writer and editor whose professional career has been spent covering Apple Computer's Apple Macintosh computers and related technologies. He was also one of the early users of the Internet as a publishing medium, with several magazines and web sites to his credit. He is currently the editorial director of Mac Publishing, the publishers of the U.S. edition of "Macworld".
- 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.
- 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, …
- George Crow
George L. Crow Jr. was a member of the original Apple Macintosh team in 1984 at Apple Computer. Crow left Apple in 1985 to become a co-founder of Steve Jobs' NeXT. Prior to working at Apple, Crow worked at HP; after leaving NeXT he worked for SuperMac and then Truevision. In 1999 Crow came back to Apple, recalling that the general atmosphere is still similar to how it was in the 1980s. He received a B.S. degree from the University of California, …
- 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, …
- Adam C. Engst
Brief Bio Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and most-respected Internet-based newsletters, distributed weekly to tens of thousands of readers. He has written numerous technical books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many magazine articles - thanks to Contributing Editor positions at MacUser, MacWEEK, and now Macworld.
- Jamie Zawinski
Jamie W. Zawinski (born November 3, 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), commonly known as jwz, is a computer programmer responsible for significant contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the proprietary Netscape Navigator web browser. He still actively maintains the XScreenSaver project, used by most open source Unix-like operating systems for screenblanking.
- Lee Clow
Lee Clow is currently the Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of TBWAWorldwide. "Advertising Age" referred to him as "advertising's art director guru." Clow is best known for creating Apple Computer's "1984" commercial which launched the Apple Macintosh and the "Think Different" slogan.. He's also known for his work on the Energizer Bunny, Taco Bell chihuahua, and California Coolers campaigns.
- Chris Breen
Christopher Breen is a writer and editor whose professional career has been spent covering Apple Computer's Apple Macintosh computers and related technologies. In addition to his technology career, Breen is also a musician who has performed professionally for two decades. He is currently a senior editor at Mac Publishing, the publishers of the U.S. edition of "Macworld". His "Mac 911" column appears monthly in that magazine.
- Danny Goodman
Danny Goodman is a computer programmer, technology consultant, and a well known award-winning author of over three dozen books and hundreds of magazine articles on computer-related topics. He is best known as the author of "The Complete Hypercard Handbook" (1987, Bantam Books, 650,000 copies in print), "The JavaScript Bible" (1996, IDG Books, 500,000 copies in print), and "Dynamic HTML" (1998, O'Reilly & Associates, 100,000 copies in print).
- Cary Lu
Cary Lu (born on December 4, 1945, in Qingdao, China, died on September 23, 1997), was a writer specialising on the Apple Macintosh platform.
- Wayne Rosing
Wayne Rosing has been involved as a key player in several landmark projects in the computing industry since the late 1970s. Gaining experience as an engineering manager at DEC and Data General in the 1970s, he became a director of engineering at Apple Computer in the early 1980s. There he led the Apple Lisa project, the forerunner to the Macintosh. He then went on to work at Sun Microsystems and headed the spin-off First Person. At Sun Labs, his team developed Java.
- Aaron Hillegass
Aaron Hillegass (born 1969) is the author of "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X", the most popular introductory text for Cocoa developers, and the proprietor of the Big Nerd Ranch, a provider of Macintosh software developer training. After working with the NEXTSTEP operating system as a university graduate, he developed NEXTSTEP application software for Wall Street. This led to teaching others how to develop software for NEXTSTEP and a job at NeXT.
- Richard Bannister
Richard Bannister is a programmer of emulation software for the Mac OS X platform. He currently maintains twenty-eight different emulators, including original projects and ports from other platforms. All of Bannister's ports are compatible with Emulator Enhancer, a shareware module created by him to add additional features, such as joystick support and full-screen mode.
- David Graham
David Graham is a British character actor and voice artist, whose work may be more familiar than his name. He trained as an actor in New York but has worked mainly on British television series. Graham played several characters on "Doctor Who", most notably the Daleks in the 1960s stories "The Chase" (where he also provided Mechanoid voices) and "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". He also played the barman Charlie in "The Gunfighters", …
- David Lawrence
David Lawrence is an American radio host, webpage designer, voice actor and author. He is the anchor and executive producer of the award-winning network music show, The Net Music Countdown. He is an Emmy Award winner and Clio Award winner. In addition to the Net Music Countdown, he is also host of the daily The David Lawrence Show and weekend Online Tonight, both nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolve around pop culture and the high-tech lifestyle.
- Aaron Giles
Aaron Giles is an American software engineer and Macintosh software emulation pioneer. Giles graduated from the University of Chicago in 1992. He is currently the lead maintainer of the MAME project. Giles initiated and was the lead programmer for Connectix Virtual Game Station, a commercial Sony PlayStation emulator for the Macintosh.
- Steven Frank
Steven Frank is a Macintosh developer and the author of the popular webcomic "Spamusement!" Frank is a co-founder of the software company Panic. He is thought of by his fans as having a stylish haircut and a pipe, from one of his Spamusement strips, Want to go on a cruise on us stevenf?. His family and friends, however, know him to be the wizard painted on the side of the van in Impress the Females
- Bill Fernandez
Bill Fernandez is a user interface architect who was Apple Computer's first employee when they incorporated in 1977. He worked on both the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, and in the 1980s was a member of the Apple Macintosh development team. He contributed to several user interface aspects of the Mac OS, QuickTime and HyperCard and owns a user interface patent granted in 1994.
- Adam Christianson
Adam Christianson is the host of The MacCast, a popular Podcast covering Apple Macintosh news and providing tips and help for Macintosh users. His Podcast provides the top Apple news and rumours. Adam Currently lives in San Diego, California. He worked as a .NET developer for Microsoft until he quit in order to start his own web design business. He is also a regular on the Mac Roundtable discussion podcast.
- Don Lancaster
Donald E. Lancaster is a prolific author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer best known for his magazine columns. He is also known for his "TV Typewriter" dumb terminal project, his book on technical entrepreneurship "The Incredible Secret Money Machine," and his work on and advocacy of early print-on-demand technology. Lancaster's print-on-demand technique, with which he self-published several books, …
- Larry Pina
Larry Pina (b. November 12, 1947) is an author of five do-it-yourself repair manuals for Apple Macintosh computers and peripherals. According to several of the books, Pina was living in Westport, Massachusetts when they were published, but he seems to have disappeared of late.
- Stuart Cheshire
Stuart Cheshire is the author of "Bolo", a networked tank game, originally written for the BBC Micro and later ported to the Apple Macintosh. Cheshire pioneered Zeroconf networking while employed as Wizard without Portfolio at Apple Computer. Zeroconf was originally released as Rendezvous, but later renamed to Bonjour.
- Jim Reekes
Jim Reekes was a programmer at Apple Computer for 12 years. His work has significantly affected operating systems, most notably Mac OS 7 and QuickTime. He also is responsible for creating many of the system sounds for the Apple Macintosh operating system. Some of the most famous creations during that time were the Macintosh OS startup sound and the system sound "sosumi".
- Jeff Vogel
Jeff Vogel is the president and primary programmer for the Spiderweb Software company, which produces shareware computer games for Macintosh and Windows PC platforms. Jeff currently lives in Seattle, Washington. To date, his most successful games have been the "Exile" series, its facelifted cousin the "Avernum" series, and the "Geneforge" series. His personal site, Irony Central, is home to sarcastic social commentary, humor pieces, …
- Ingemar Ragnemalm
Ingemar Ragnemalm is a computer programmer, best known for writing the Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT) and several games for the Apple Macintosh during the 1990s, including "Bert".
- Lotus Magellan
Lotus Magellan was a groundbreaking DOS-based desktop search package, conceived and developed by Bill Gross and released in the 1980s by Lotus Development Corporation, most famous for Lotus 1-2-3. Despite its legendary effectiveness, Magellan was not particularly successful in the marketplace, likely due to the smallish hard drives of the era, and today is generally forgotten.
- Steve Perlman
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor with over 70 patents in an array of multimedia and communications technologies. Perlman initially attracted notice as a principal scientist of Apple Computer, Inc., where he led the development efforts for much of the underlying multimedia technology incorporated into the color Macintosh, including the underpinnings of QuickTime technology. Perlman left Apple with other employees to join General Magic, …
- Steve Maguire
Steve Maguire is a renowned software engineer and author of software engineering topics. He is the author of two books on software development, "Writing Solid Code" and "Debugging the Development Process". Maguire attended the University of Arizona where he earned with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering though most of his work has been with computer software. Maguire's professional work spans two nations, Japan and the United States.
- Brett Larson
Emmy Award winning reporter Brett Larson is currently the technology reporter for WNYW-TV (FOX 5) in New York City. Previously, he was with WCBS-TV and appeared on CBS 2 News on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings. Recently, Larson has also worked for 1010 WINS radio in New York City and UPN 31's "Good Day Sacramento" (Sacramento, California). In 2005, Larson became the host of about.com's Gadget blog (about.com/gadgets).