Every person.
Designers, founders, engineers, and operators who shaped pen-based computing — biographies drawn from the museum's collection.
57 Items
Jeff Hawkins
Andy Hertzfeld
Thom Hogan
John Jerney
Jerry Kaplan
Steve Kusmer
Arjen Maarleveld
David MacNeill
Eric J. Maffei
Ken Maki
Arthur Makosinski
Steve Mann
Steven G. McDowell
Julie McKeehan
Stepan Pachikov
Lou Panetta
J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D.
Jackie Pierce
Marc Porat
Neil Rhodes
Alain Rossmann
David Schachter
J.B. Schueler
Michael Slater
Jeff Hawkins
Jeffrey Hawkins is an American businessman, computer scientist, neuroscientist and engineer. He co-founded Palm Computing — where he co-created the PalmPilot and Treo — and Handspring. He subsequently turned to…
John Jerney
John Jerney started as a Contributing Editor in 1992, and published and edited Pen-Based Computing: The Journal of Stylus Systems from 1993 through to its final issue in 1998. Jerney then launched…
Steve Kusmer
Steve Kusmer led engineering of the world’s first word processor for handwriting, later acquired by Microsoft.
Eric J. Maffei
Eric J. Maffei was Editor-in-Chief of Microsoft Systems Journal.
Arthur Makosinski
Arthur Makosinski served as Contributing Editor to Pen-Based Computing: The Journal of Stylus Systems from 1993 to 1998. Makosinski is an award-winning filmmaker and accomplished electronics engineer. He is an…