The man at the origin of the technological advances that have made the success of Microsoft and Apple is dead.
Unknown to the public, Jack "Jacob" Goldman is the founder of the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) computer research centre where are born plethora of concepts and technologies as a basis to our current computing environment.
Bone interface based on icons, Windows and menus in place and place lines of commands, the mouse, laser printing, text processing WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), the Ethernet network protocol, oriented programming ErrMsg short, everything that today seems "normal", and is part of our daily lives was imagined to park in the early seventies.
These innovative and revolutionary concepts at the time being not exploited commercially by Xerox, they were largely taken over and improved by Steve Jobs and Apple engineers after their visit to the premises of the laboratory of research in 1979, and to design the famous Macintosh... Computer which he know the computer to the largest number and which some Bill Gates is inspired to develop the no less famous Windows PC operating system.
Human died at the age of 90 on Thursday 22 December in California.
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