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    Jef Raskin (born Jeff Raskin; March 9, 1943 – February 26, 2005) was an American human–computer interface expert who conceived and began leading the Macintosh...
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    designer. He is the son of Jef Raskin, a human–computer interface expert who was the initiator of the Macintosh project at Apple. Raskin is an advocate for the...
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  • Raskin (1911–1993), Canadian-American labor reporter Aza Raskin (born 1984), son of Jef Raskin and president of Humanized, makers of Enso Jef Raskin (1943–2005)...
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    developed its switching power supply. With human–computer interface expert Jef Raskin, Wozniak had a major influence over the initial development of the original...
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  • Archy (software) (category Jef Raskin)
    graphical user interfaces. Designed by human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin, it embodies his ideas and established results about human-centered design...
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  • worked with Jef Raskin to design a new curriculum on humane interfaces and computer enterprises. The project was never completed due to Raskin's death in...
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  • The Humane Interface (category Jef Raskin)
    (ISBN 0-201-37937-6) is a book about user interface design written by Jef Raskin and published in 2000. It covers ergonomics, quantification, evaluation...
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  • FLOW is an educational programming language designed by Jef Raskin in 1970 and implemented on several minicomputers in the early 1970s. The goal of the...
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    Apple's board of directors, he appropriated the Macintosh project from Jef Raskin, who had conceived of a sub-$1,000 (equivalent to $4,200 in 2023) text-based...
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    one of the fifteen most popular apple cultivars in the United States. Jef Raskin, an employee at Apple Computer, named the Macintosh computer line—later...
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    Canon Cat (category Jef Raskin)
    ideas for data manipulation. The system is primarily the creation of Jef Raskin who originated the Macintosh project at Apple. After leaving the company...
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    with the macOS operating system; the latest release is macOS 15 Sequoia. Jef Raskin conceived the Macintosh project in 1979, which was usurped and redefined...
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    devices or wireless devices. The term information appliance was coined by Jef Raskin around 1979. As later explained by Donald Norman in his influential The...
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    project. At the same time that the Lisa was becoming a GUI machine in 1979, Jef Raskin began the Macintosh project. The design at that time was for a low-cost...
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  • Belgian pianist and composer Jef Nys (1927–2009), Belgian comic book creator Jef Planckaert (1934–2007), Belgian cyclist Jef Raskin (1943–2005), American human–computer...
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  • Hertzfeld. Despite the change, his behavior does not change: he forces out Jef Raskin, the original Macintosh group leader, and then takes his place. Later...
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    Less Pizza Boss A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas TV Director 2013 Jobs Jef Raskin Awful Nice Ivan Gregory Go Boom Tom Short, also producer 2014 Someone...
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    subsequent years. Beginning in 1979, started by Steve Jobs and led by Jef Raskin, the Apple Lisa and Macintosh teams at Apple Computer (which included...
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  • lecture" with Jef Raskin. The discussion focused on "what computers should look like and how they should improve people's lives." Raskin was so impressed...
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    Apple Macintosh, which was conceived by human–computer interface expert Jef Raskin. After a shakeup in the Apple II team and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's...
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  • impossible for the user to commit them. In his book The Humane Interface, Jef Raskin defines modality as follows: "An human-machine interface is modal with...
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    Macintosh in 1981, from early Apple employee Jef Raskin, who had conceived the project. Wozniak and Raskin had heavily influenced the early program, and...
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  • '\0') { if (is_alphabetic(*text)) count++; text++; } return count; } Jef Raskin criticized the belief in "self-documenting" code by saying that code cannot...
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    Jef Raskin was one of his professors. Atkinson continued his studies as a graduate student in neurochemistry at the University of Washington. Raskin invited...
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  • model, even though the user took explicit care to preserve the data. Jef Raskin advocated designing devices in ways that prevent erroneous actions. Don...
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  • or the toolbar of the active window in Windows). User interface expert Jef Raskin coined the term "quasimode" to describe the state a computer enters into...
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  • describes as "pseudoscientific verbiage" and "perfectly meaningless". Jef Raskin wrote that Rogers' writings were filled with contradictions, "fuzzy physics...
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  • February 25 – Ben Bowen, child cancer patient (b. 2002) February 26 – Jef Raskin, computer scientist (b. 1943) March 6 Hans Bethe, German-born physicist...
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  • taken by many Zooming User Interface projects such as the one created by Jef Raskin. While many window managers (such as Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager...
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  • of Tog's early programs, The Great American Probability Machine, had Jef Raskin hire him as Apple's first applications software engineer. He's listed...
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