Background
Raskin, Jef was born on March 9, 1943 in New York City. Son of William Benjamin and Frieda (Botfeld) Raskin.
Raskin, Jef was born on March 9, 1943 in New York City. Son of William Benjamin and Frieda (Botfeld) Raskin.
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1965. Master of Science in Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1967.
Professor, University of California at San Diego, LaJolla, 1969-1974;
president, Bannister & Crun, Brisbane, California, 1974-1978;
manager advanced systems, Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, California, 1978-1982;
chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Information Appliance Inc., Palo Alto, California, 1982-1989;
consultant, Pacifica, California, since 1989. Consultant Hewlett Packard, International Business Machines Corporation, NCR, Fujitsu, Ricoh, McKesson, others. Visiting scholar Stanford Artifical Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford, 1973, Ctr.for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, 1995.
Creator Apple's Macintosh Project, 1979-1982.
Board of directors Pacifica Land Trust, since 1991, Chanticleer, San Francisco, 1982-1985. Member San Mateo Regional Planning Commission, Redwood City, California, 1975-1978. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery, Academy of Model Aeronautics, California Academy of Sciences.
Married Linda Sara Blum, July 27, 1982. Children: Aza Benjamin, Aviva Frieda, Aenea Hannah.