Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system in 1984 and the ubiquity of the desktop metaphor of files and folders ...

Also, there's a tentative labor deal between video game actors and studios. And we'll remember legendary Apple software engineer Bill Atkinson, who died at the age of 74.

Apple pioneer and nature photographer Bill Atkinson died at the beginning of June as a result of cancer. He was 74 years old.

Bill Atkinson died on June 5 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Atkinson was one of the earliest Apple employees, responsible for key Mac software and its graphical user interfaces. But ...

You may not know his name, but Steve Jobs was so desparate to hire Bill Atkinson that he went to extraordinary lengths to recruit him for Apple - and it proved to be a smart move.

Bill Atkinson, who died Thursday at 74, was an early engineer at Apple whose exceptional skill and ingenuity lives to this day in the fine details of graphic design. Given the limited resources of ...

Bill Atkinson, an influential computer programmer whose graphics software was key to making the Macintosh easy to use and fun, has died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Portola Valley in the San ...

Bill Atkinson, architect of the Mac’s graphical soul, dies at 74 Creator of MacPaint, HyperCard, and pull-down menus shaped modern computing.