> Susan Kare, the first artist hired in the computer industry
Citation? This seems like an unbelievable claim. At the very least, PARC must have had an artist on the payroll.
Citation? This seems like an unbelievable claim. At the very least, PARC must have had an artist on the payroll.
Alvy Ray Smith never got a fine arts degree, but he's definitely done art for most of his career, including exhibitions. "True artist" almost sounds like a way to exclude these types :).
Because PARC was an intentionally multi-disciplinary group working on the earliest incarnations of visual computing.
Also, no one is disputing that Susan Kare is highly accomplished and hugely influential.