Tag: obituary

Michael Hawley, who helped write Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech, dies

Thursday, June 25, 2020 10:24 am3 Comments

Michael Hawley, a computer programmer, professor, musician, speechwriter and impresario who helped lay the intellectual groundwork for what is now…

Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, dead at 65

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 10:25 amTuesday, October 16, 201812 Comments

Paul Allen, the fiercely private Microsoft co-founder known as much for his love of sports…

Apple Mac writer Charles W. Moore dead at 66

Friday, September 21, 2018 10:25 amFriday, September 21, 20185 Comments

The Mac-related webverse has lost one of its own with the passing of writer Charles W. Moore

Robert Taylor, innovator who shaped modern computing, dies at 85

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 4:01 pmTuesday, April 18, 20174 Comments

Perhaps no one deserves more credit for the world-changing technological leap – the internet – than Robert W. Taylor…

Amar Bose, audio pioneer, dead at 83

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 9:01 amTuesday, July 16, 201318 Comments

Amar Bose, the founder and chief executive of the audio company that bears his last name…

Ray Bradbury dead at 91

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 2:15 pmWednesday, June 6, 201224 Comments

Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered…

Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in small plane crash

Friday, February 3, 2012 4:44 pmFriday, February 3, 201218 Comments

Steve Appleton, Micron Chairman and CEO, passed away this morning in a small plane accident…