Bruce Lawrence Horn, a programmer with Apple Computer, was the creator of the Macintosh Finder and the Macintosh Resource Manager. His signature is amongst those molded to the case of the Macintosh 128K.
He was a student in the Learning Research Group (1973-1981), where Smalltalk was developed. While there he worked on various projects including the NoteTaker, a portable Smalltalk machine, and wrote the initial Dorado Smalltalk microcode for Smalltalk.
Dr. Horn owns, and programs software for, Ingenuity Software. He is currently employed with Powerset as the principal development manager of the Natural Language Technology group. Powerset was acquired by Microsoft in the fall of 2008 and is part of Live Search.
Dr. Horn currently serves on the board of advisors of The Hyperwords Company Ltd of the UK, which works to make the web more usefully interactive and which has produced the free Firefox Add-On called 'Hyperwords'. [1]
Dr. Horn received an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University in Computer Science, graduating in 1994, and a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University in 1982.
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External links
- Home page
- Bruce Horn on 1984, Today, and Beyond - April 26, 2004
- The Mac at 20: An Interview with Bruce Horn
- Joining the Mac Group: The Reality Distortion Field changes Bruce's mind about working at Apple, written by Bruce Horn
- The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources
Bruce's DOB is unknown.
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