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The computing community has lost one of its greats.

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Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943�February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s.

Raskin was born in New York City. He received degrees in mathematics (B.S. 1964) and philosophy (B.A. 1965) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He earned a master's degree in computer science at Pennsylvania State University in 1967. His first computer program, a music program, was part of his master's thesis.

Although the PC remains dominant, no one who went to college in the US in the last twenty years could forget the Macintosh Revolution, which continues to drive many of the finest portable devices of today, including the I-Pod.

May his soul rest in peace.

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