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RIP Mike Culbert, iOS and Newton pioneer
- justscam 13y agoRest in peace, Mike will certainly be missed
- kabdib 13y agoI worked with Mike for a couple of years on Newton. I had tremendous respect for his breadth of understanding of systems, from transistors and batteries all the way up to user interaction. He was a hardware designer who really understood software, too; in my experience, that's rare. We've lost another great engineer to cancer. This sucks. My condolences to his family, friends and co-workers.
- turingbook 13y agoIt is a pity that there is nearly nothing (articles, words, videos) on the web about this excellent engineer.
- gilgoomesh 13y agoYou could read through his list of invented/co-invented patents: http://www.google.com/?tbm=pts#safe=off&output=search&tbm=pts&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22michael+culbert%22+apple+uspto http://www.google.com/?tbm=pts#safe=off&output=search... I realize it's not quite what you meant.
- turingbook 13y agoThank you. In some extent, these patents are the best things left for an engineer.
- kabdib 13y agoHe had a paper in CompCon 94 (it's behind an IEEE paywall, though). "Low power hardware for a high performance PDA" http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=282933&contentType=Conference+Publications&sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A7003%29 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&ar... Walter Smith's site may have a mirror, but I can't get to it right now.
- michaelrbock 13y agoDoes "digital content escrow for iTunes purchases" refer to Apple's grouping of multiple iTunes purchases into a single credit card transaction, as described here: http://qr.ae/T3uTd http://qr.ae/T3uTd ?
- hboon 13y agoNo. It is described at http://www.google.com/patents/US20090070122?pg=PA1&dq=michael+culbert+escrow&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hwd1UcKmI8jyrQeSu4DQBQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA http://www.google.com/patents/US20090070122?pg=PA1&dq=mi...