Steve Capps

Steve Capps

Steve Capps is a computer programmer and engineer who is best known for his work on the Apple Inc. Macintosh computer and Newton OS during the 1980s and 1990s. He started working at the Xerox Corporation while still a computer science student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1981, Capps started working for Apple on the Lisa project and he continued his work on the Macintosh, principally writing the Finder and Macintosh system utilities.

During a break in 1986, he wrote three music programs including Jam Session, SoundEdit, and Super Studio Session; SoundEdit was eventually sold to Macromedia. From 1987 to 1996, he was the chief architect and Apple Fellow for the Newton, where he led the specification and development of the user interface of Newton, shepherded the team of software developers, and wrote many portions of the built-in application software. From 1996 until 2001, he was a user interface architect at Microsoft. His early work at Microsoft resulted in the Internet Explorer Search, History, and Favorites panes. He was also a co-founder of the MSN Explorer project.

ee also

*Andy Hertzfeld
*Steve Jobs

External links

* [http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Steve_Capps_Day.txt Steve Capps Day at Apple]
* [http://www.msu.edu/~luckie/hallofame.htm Steve Capps at the 'Newton Hall of Fame']
* [http://www.onedoto.com/ Steve Capps' user interface design company]


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