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 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 led the iCal and iSync development teams for Mac OS X (2002).[4]
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 Hullot in 2008 | |
| Born | February 16, 1954 Paris, France |
| Died | June 19, 2019 (aged 65) Paris, France |
| Known for | Interface Builder, NeXTSTEP, iCal, iSync |
Education
editIn 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.
Career
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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 the 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]
References
edit- ^ The Nextonian
- ^ "WWDC 2003 notes". Archived from the original on 2016-10-25. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
- ^ a b "Jean-Marie Hullot, visionary computer scientist and tech expert". INRIA. 20 June 2019.
- ^ McLean, Prince (17 October 2007). "Road to Mac OS X Leopard: iCal 3.0". AppleInsider.
- ^ Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert. "What are we going to call this thing?" (PDF). How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-21. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
External links
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- Jean-Marie Hullot - fotopedia
- INRIA Archived 2010-01-29 at the Wayback Machine — appears to be outdated, as Hullot is not mentioned there (Jun 2014)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
- Jean-Marie Hullot at DBLP Bibliography Server
- UPDATED: Google begged Steve Jobs for permission to hire engineers for its new Paris office. Guess what happened next…
