Nach seinem Abschluss 1975 an der Brown University im Fach Computer Science besuchte Hertzfeld die graduate school in der University of California, Berkeley. In 1996, Hertzfeld was interviewed by Robert Cringely on the television documentary Triumph of the Nerds, and was again interviewed by Cringely on NerdTV in 2005. A self-titled 'software wizard', Hertzfeld played a critical role in the designing of the Mac OS and especially the Finder. In early 2004, he started folklore.org, a Web site devoted to collective storytelling that contains dozens of anecdotes about the development of the original Macintosh. At Eazel, he helped to create the Nautilus file manager for Linux's GNOME desktop. He is an inventor and computer scientist, probably best known for being a former programmer in Apple Computer. Speaking with Re/code, Hertzfeld says he met with Sorkin early on in the writing process, then later answered some of his questions via email. In August 2005, Hertzfeld joined Google. [7], Learn how and when to remove this template message, "The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile", "An Interview: The Macintosh Design Team", "How Steve Jobs Caused the Funniest and Weirdest Apple Business Card I've Ever Seen", "Original Mac Team Member Andy Hertzfeld Talks About the Hollywood 'Steve Jobs' (Q&A)", "Where Does Google Plan to Spend $4 Billion? Basically, he convinced me it was not a documentary, so veracity is secondary to artistic considerations, and ‘it’s a painting, not a photograph. ", "Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social", "Listen to Andy Hertzfeld on Steve Jobs movie, General Magic, and his time at Google", "Video conferencing sucks. The purpose of the film is to entertain, inspire and move the audience, not to portray reality. “[In one email, Sorkin] asked me how Steve would react to a specific situation, involving the speech demo failing,” Hertzfeld recalls. Andy Hertzfeld Wiki Biography. [9][10] He also worked on Picasa, and Gmail's profile image selector. His take on it? Working for Bud Tribble alongside Bill Atkinson and Burrell Smith, Hertzfeld became a primary software architect of the Macintosh Operating System, which was considered revolutionary in its use of the graphical user interface (GUI) where Jef Raskin also made contributions. Leave your comments below. [11] He retired from Google in July 2013. Andy Hertzfeld: Date: February 1981: Characters: Steve Jobs, Bud Tribble: Topics: Management, Personality, Reality Distortion: Summary: Bud defines Steve's unique talent: I officially started on the Mac project on a Thursday afternoon, and Bud Tribble, my new manager and the only other software person on the project, was out of town. In 2002, he helped Mitch Kapor promote open source software with the Open Source Applications Foundation. [15] Hertzfeld stated "almost nothing in it is like it really happened" about the Steve Jobs film, but ultimately said the film wasn't aiming for realism. [1]. Hertzfeld's business card at Apple listed his title as Software Wizard. “I pointed out that it didn’t happen in reality, and we had a lengthy discussion about artistic license, about how okay it is to diverge from reality. He is also recognized as the co-founder of three companies – Radius, General Magic, and Eazel. With the first Macintosh, Hertzfeld wrote an icon editor and font editor so that Susan Kare could design the symbols used in the operating system.[3]. Next to Steve Jobs, Andy Hertzfeld is the name I most associate with the original Macintosh project. and Dr. Dobb's and soon came to the attention of Apple Computer. Since leaving Apple in 1984, Hertzfeld has co-founded three new companies – Radius (1986), General Magic (1990), and Eazel (1999). [7], Hertzfeld and his wife live in Palo Alto, California. In the early 1980s, he invited his high school friend, artist Susan Kare, to join Apple in order to help design what would become standard Macintosh icons. [4][5] After a shakeup in the Apple II team and at Hertzfeld's request, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs added him to the nearly two-year-old Macintosh team in February 1981. Hertzfeld was a member of the Apple Macintosh design team. He was hired by Apple Computer as a systems programmer in 1979 and developed the Apple SilenType printer firmware and wrote the firmware[2] for the Sup'R'Terminal, the first 80-column card for the Apple II. For that reason, Hertzfeld is one of the characters portrayed in the new Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs movie, as well as someone who got to see an early unfinished cut of the film. [6] He wrote large portions of the Macintosh's original system software, including much of the ROM code, the User Interface Toolbox, and a number of innovative components now standard in many graphic user interfaces, like the Control Panel and Scrapbook. Could "augmented" meetings replace it? Since leaving Apple, he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990, and Eazel in 1999. He was later played by actor Michael Stuhlbarg in the 2015 film Steve Jobs. He volunteered for the Open Source Applications Foundation in 2002 and 2003, writing early prototypes of Chandler, their information manager. 19 questions you might be asking after seeing 'Steve Jobs' - CNET Andy Hertzfeld was one of the first programmers that Jobs recruited on the Mac team. Do Andy Hertzfeld’s comments sway your thoughts on the Steve Jobs movie? The stories have been collected in an O'Reilly book, Revolution in the Valley, published in December 2004. He went on to write for Call A.P.P.L.E. [8] On June 28, 2011, Google announced Google+, its latest attempt at social networking. After graduating from Brown University with a computer science degree in 1975, Hertzfeld attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. Hertzfeld worked at Google from 2005 to 2013, where in 2011 he was the key designer of the Circles user interface in Google+. Hertzfeld was the key designer of the Google+ Circles component user interface, but not the entire project as has been mistakenly claimed. Er wurde bei Apple 1979 als Systemprogrammierer angestellt und entwickelte den Silentype-Drucker und die erste 80-Zeichen-Karte für den Apple II. Andy Hertzfeld Relationship to Steve Colleague Short Bio. [12], As of October 2018, he is an investor of the startup Spatial. Andy Hertzfeld was born on the 6th April 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It is cavalier about the facts but aspires to explore and expose the deeper truths behind Steve’s unusual personality and behavior, and it often but not always succeeds at that.”, Hertzfeld’s comments are interesting, especially read alongside Steve Wozniak’s appraisal of the movie. 1978 kaufte er einen Apple II Computer und begann bald darauf, Software zu entwickeln. In 1978, he bought an Apple II computer and soon began developing software for it. Andy Hertzfeld: Steve Jobs movie is 'almost nothing' like reality • Differnet.com – Andy Hertzfeld's personal homepage; a collection of Web sites designed and/or hosted by him That it’s almost nothing like reality in terms of the events portrayed — but a great movie all the same. ", "Thesps click with Steve 'Jobs' indie: Kevin Dunn, Elden Henson, others join biopic", "Aaron Sorkin doesn't want people calling the Steve Jobs biopic a biopic", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy_Hertzfeld&oldid=989631731, Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area, University of California, Berkeley alumni, BLP articles lacking sources from January 2016, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 November 2020, at 03:07. By Luke Dormehl • 6:32 am, October 2, 2015. '”, Despite this, Hertzfeld describes Steve Jobs as, “a fine movie, brilliantly written and performed and full of humor and feeling,” although he reiterates that it, “deviates from reality everywhere” and is “almost nothing in it is like it really happened.”, “[U]ltimately that doesn’t matter that much. [13], Hertzfeld was portrayed by Elden Henson in the 2013 film Jobs,[14]. He left Apple in 1986. With "Revolution in the Valley" making its paperback debut and the work of Steve Jobs fresh in people's minds, we checked in with Andy Hertzfeld to discuss the legacy of the first Macintosh. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software. In a previous interview with Deadline, Woz praised the movie’s accuracy, saying that, “I felt like I was actually watching Steve Jobs and the others (including Seth Rogen’s portrayal of Woz himself), not actors playing them.”. While I think the facts of Jobs’ life are intriguing enough on their own, I also don’t have a problem with Aaron Sorkin aiming for a more impressionistic portrayal of events — so long as what comes out of it feels like a genuine portrayal of all involved. To be fair, it seemed pretty clear from the moment Michael Fassbender was cast (looking nothing like Steve Jobs), that this movie was not aiming for documentary realism. Andrew Jay Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) is an American software engineer and innovator who was a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s.