![]() Raskin said "I was talking fifty dollars a page. Jobs hired Raskin's company Bannister and Crun to write the Apple II BASIC Programming Manual. Raskin first met Apple Computer co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in their garage workshop following the debut of their Apple II personal computer at the first West Coast Computer Faire. He formed a company named Bannister and Crun, which was named for two characters playing in the BBC radio comedy The Goon Show. Raskin occasionally wrote for computer publications, such as Dr. During this period, he changed the spelling of his name from "Jeff" to "Jef" after having met Jon Collins and liking the lack of extraneous letters. Raskin curated several art shows including one featuring his collection of unusual toys, and presenting toys as works of art. ![]() It was also the basis for programming classes taught by Raskin and Collins in the UCSD Visual Arts Department. Later versions of the language utilized "typing amplification" in which only the first letter is typed and the computer provides the balance of the instruction eliminating typing errors. The language was first implemented in Fortran by Collins in under a week. The language has only seven statements ( COMMENT, GET IT, PRINT IT, PRINT "text", JUMP TO, IF IT IS " " JUMP TO, and STOP) and can not manipulate numbers. The language was first used at the Humanities Summer Training Institute held in 1970 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. He was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to establish a Computer and Humanities center which used several 16-bit Data General Nova computers and glass terminals rather than the teletypes which were more common at that time.Īlong with his undergraduate student Jonathan (Jon) Collins, Raskin developed the FLOW programming language for use in teaching programming to the art and humanities students. Raskin announced his resignation from the assistant professorship by flying over the Chancellor's house in a hot air balloon. There, he did shows about toys as works of art. He worked as an assistant professor in the Visual Arts department from 1968 until 1974. Raskin later enrolled in a graduate music program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), but stopped to teach art, photography, and computer science there. The first original computer application he wrote was a music application as part of his master's thesis. Even though he had completed work for his PhD, the university was not accredited for a PhD in computer science. In 1967, he received a master's degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University, after having switched from mathematical logic due to differences of opinion with his advisor. He received a BA in mathematics and a BS in physics with minors in philosophy and music from Stony Brook University. Jef Raskin was born in New York City to a secular Jewish family, whose surname is a matronymic from "Raske", Yiddish nickname for Rachel. 2.2 Pioneering the information appliance.Photo Gallery of Jef Raskin (including recent pictures) (just a brief selection of the 8,000 slides scanned by Dick Karpinski in summer 2004, with a scanner the DigiBarn provided) See much more on this page about Jef's life that has been contributed by his friends and family. Photos and audio interviews of this visit follow. Jef gave us a tour of some of his amazing artifacts from the birth of personal computing. On January 29, 2005, a month before his passing we visited Jef and his family. ![]() If you have any stories, images, video or audio or artifacts pertinent to telling Jef's story, please do not hesitate to contact us. Jef has also provided us some wonderful writing and other documents including his story Meeting Merlin about his early "ah ha" moment that led him to go into computing and a provokative collection ofĮarly Documents about the birth of the Macintosh. Jef Raskin was a great friend of the DigiBarn project having provided us with some historic items to exhibit including the Canon Cat, the first joystick made for an Apple computer, a prototype of the Swyft and other wonders. ![]() Jef featured on Google home page, Feb 28-March 2, 2005 ![]() The Design Sense and Life of Jef Raskin, and Recent Contributions about Jef NEW: Remembrancesof Jef Raskin by Richard Karpinski and by Larry Tesler and others, (our photos and audio of the service are included here) We invite you to view and listen to our January 2005 interviews with JefĪs well as see slides featuring his life in design and other resourcesĪ Memorial Service for Jef Raskin was held March 13, 2005 Our condolences go out to Jef's family, friends and wider community. Jef Raskin passed away peacefully on Saturday February 26th, 2005. ![]()
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