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Avie Tevanian

Turned NeXTSTEP into Mac OS X, the foundation of every Apple platform.

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The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • A principal designer of the Mach kernel at Carnegie Mellon, which still sits at the heart of macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS.
  • Led the transformation of NeXTSTEP into Mac OS X, shipping releases 10.0 through 10.3 as Apple's software engineering chief.

Apple

SVP Software Engineering, then Chief Software Technology Officer

Joined from NeXT in 1997; shipped Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.3. Left in 2006.

Why

Why we celebrate them.

The kernel you helped design now runs in billions of pockets. Thank you, Avie, for the deep foundations that hold everything up.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • Wikipedia
  • Apple Newsroom
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