Bill Atkinson, an engineer who played a key role in the development of the Macintosh and other landmark Apple products, has ...

Atkinson's legacy includes creating and designing foundational Apple apps like MacPaint, QuickDraw and HyperCard.

A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present ...

The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William ...

My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained ...

Legendary software pioneer Bill Atkinson died at the age of 74 on Thursday at his home in Portola Valley, Calif., in the San ...

Bill Atkinson, the Apple designer behind the Lisa and Macintosh graphical user interfaces, has passed away at 74 due to ...

Atkinson married three times and is survived by his wife Jingwen Cai, two daughters, a stepson, a stepdaughter, two brothers, ...

Tim Cook has shared a public tribute following the passing of Bill Atkinson, one of the most legendary figures in Apple’s history.

Atkinson was recruited to Apple by the late Jef Raskin (he started the team that created the Macintosh computer) through the ...

Bill Atkinson, renowned software pioneer and Apple Computer designer, passed away at 74 due to pancreatic cancer at his ...

Atkinson helped develop the graphical interface for both the Lisa and the original Macintosh. He created QuickDraw, the ...