RIP Mike Culbert, iOS and Newton pioneer

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/21/rip-mike-culbert-ios-and-newton-pioneer/

by sthkr • 13 years ago

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justscam• 13 years ago

Rest in peace, Mike will certainly be missed

kabdib2• 13 years ago

I worked with Mike for a couple of years on Newton. I had tremendous respect for his breadth of understanding of systems, from transistors and batteries all the way up to user interaction. He was a hardware designer who really understood software, too; in my experience, that's rare.

We've lost another great engineer to cancer. This sucks.

My condolences to his family, friends and co-workers.

turingbook2• 13 years ago

It is a pity that there is nearly nothing (articles, words, videos) on the web about this excellent engineer.

gilgoomesh• 13 years ago

You could read through his list of invented/co-invented patents:

http://www.google.com/?tbm=pts#safe=off&output=search...

I realize it's not quite what you meant.

turingbook2• 13 years ago

Thank you. In some extent, these patents are the best things left for an engineer.

kabdib2• 13 years ago

He had a paper in CompCon 94 (it's behind an IEEE paywall, though).

"Low power hardware for a high performance PDA" http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&ar...

Walter Smith's site may have a mirror, but I can't get to it right now.

michaelrbock• 13 years ago

Does "digital content escrow for iTunes purchases" refer to Apple's grouping of multiple iTunes purchases into a single credit card transaction, as described here: http://qr.ae/T3uTd ?

hboon• 13 years ago

No. It is described at http://www.google.com/patents/US20090070122?pg=PA1&dq=mi...

RIP Mike Culbert, iOS and Newton pioneer

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