Biography:Jean-Marie Hullot
Jean-Marie Hullot | |
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 Hullot in April 2004 | |
| Born | February 16, 1954 Paris, France |
| Died | June 19, 2019 (aged 65) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Interface Builder, NeXTSTEP, iCal, iSync |
Jean-Marie Hullot (February 16, 1954 – June 17, 2019) was a French computer scientist and programmer who authored important programs for the original Macintosh, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X platforms. These include the SOS Interface for the Mac,[1] which later became Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP (1985),[2] and later still evolved into an important part of Mac OS X. He also came up with the idea of the iPhone[3] and lead the iCal and iSync development teams for Mac OS X (2002).[4]
In 1981, Jean-Marie Hullot received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Paris at Orsay,[5] where his adviser was Gérard Huet. He was a researcher at INRIA from 1979 to 1985, when he joined NeXT. In 1996 he co-founded RealNames, a URL translation service which closed in 2002. He worked as CTO of Application Division at Apple Inc. from 2001 to 2005. He was the President and CEO of Fotopedia, a collaborative photo encyclopedia, and co-founder of The Iris Foundation, a nature conservancy organization.
He died on June 19, 2019.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ The Nextonian
- ↑ "WWDC 2003 notes". http://www.mac-guild.org/wwdc/wwdc03.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Jean-Marie Hullot, visionary computer scientist and tech expert". 20 June 2019. https://www.inria.fr/en/jean-marie-hullot-visionary-computer-scientist-and-tech-expert.
- ↑ McLean, Prince (17 October 2007). "Road to Mac OS X Leopard: iCal 3.0". https://appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/17/road_to_mac_os_x_leopard_ical_3_0.
- ↑ Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert. "What are we going to call this thing?". How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web. Oxford University Press. http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-286207-3.pdf.
External links
- Jean-Marie Hullot - fotopedia
- INRIA — appears to be outdated, as Hullot is not mentioned there (Jun 2014)
- Interview, December 1999 (in French)
- Ex-Apple Team To Launch Stealth Startup Fotonauts
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