Bruce Horn
Bruce Lawrence Horn (born 1959[1]) is a programmer. He created the original Macintosh Finder and the Macintosh Resource Manager for Apple Computer. His signature is amongst those molded to the case of the Macintosh 128K. He has been a distinguished engineer at Siri and Language Technologies at Apple since June 2022.[citation needed]
Horn was a member of the original Apple Macintosh design team.[2] He received a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University in 1982 and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University in Computer Science in 1994. Horn 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.
He owns, and programs software for, Ingenuity Software. He was employed by Powerset as the principal development manager of the Natural Language Technology group. Powerset was acquired by Microsoft in the fall of 2008 and became part of Bing.
Horn was an Intel Fellow and Chief Scientist for Smart Device Innovation in the New Devices Group then became CTO, Saffron Technology Group at Intel Corporation.[3][4]
Horn 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'.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Horn, Bruce, 2022 Interview
- ^ Lemmons, Phil (February 1984). "An Interview: The Macintosh Design Team". BYTE (interview). p. 58. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ^ "Intel Executive Biographies" Archived February 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Intel website
- ^ "Why complementary learning is the future of AI (sponsored by Intel Saffron) - Bruce Horn (Intel) - O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference 2017 - San Francisco, CA [Video]". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
- ^ "About Us : Advisory Board" Archived 2009-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, Hyperwords website
External links
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- Home page
- Bruce Horn on 1984, Today, and Beyond - April 26, 2004
- 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
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