Thomas Whitney (computing)

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Whitney graduated from Aurelia High School in Aurelia, Iowa in 1957, and completed BS (1961), MS (1962) and PhD (1964) degrees in electrical engineering at Iowa State University, [1] where he was a member of Acacia fraternity.

He joined Hewlett-Packard in 1967, where he helped develop the HP-35, the first handheld electronic scientific calculator, and was a lecturer at Santa Clara University.

He later joined Apple as employee 15, [2] and in 1978 became executive vice president of engineering, working directly with Steve Jobs and Jef Raskin on the Macintosh project.

Whitney died in 1986 at age 47.

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References

  1. "Thomas M. Whitney Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering". Archived from the original on 2009-03-13.
  2. "System - Error 404". www.isualum.org.