Jef Raskin has held a wide variety of positions in computing and other spheres, but he is fated to be forever associated with the development of the Apple Macintosh computer, as he was the manager of advanced systems at Apple for this particular project.

In 1943 Jef (Jeffrey) Raskin was born in Brentwood, New York, on Long Island. After local schooling Raskin was awarded a B.S. in mathematics and physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1964. Following this Raskin was awarded a B.A. in 1965 in the philosophy of science with a minor in music--this was also from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (the two courses had been taken part concurrently). Raskin moved to Pennsylvania State University to study for a Ph.D. in philosophy, but decided he wanted to switch to computer science. Unfortunately Pennsylvania State did not...