“Jef Raskin, GUI pioneer, interface expert, Apple employee #31, and the man most credited with the creation of the Apple Macintosh, died of cancer on Saturday February 26, 2005. It was Raskin who named it after his favorite fruit, the McIntosh apple, although he said that he changed the spelling to ”Macintosh“ to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer.”
Source: Slashdot | GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away
He invented the concept of click-and-drag selection and the term and concept of “information appliances.” Oh, and GUI means Graphic User Interface. His artwork was displayed at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He conducted the San Francisco Chamber Opera Society and wrote the score for a movie, “Smog Patterns,” shown on PBS. He has a patent for a “Construction Technique for an Airplane Wing,” and was a noted model airplane designer, an accomplished archer, and an occasional race car driver.
For an interesting article about Jef, read MacMinute.
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