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Andy Hertzfeld (Andrew Jay Hertzfeld) was born on 6 April, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American programmer (born 1953). Discover Andy Hertzfeld's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
| Popular As |
Andrew Jay Hertzfeld |
| Occupation |
Software engineer |
| Age |
70 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
| Born |
6 April, 1953 |
| Birthday |
6 April |
| Birthplace |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States
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He is a member of famous engineer with the age 70 years old group.
Andy Hertzfeld Height, Weight & Measurements
At 70 years old, Andy Hertzfeld height not available right now. We will update Andy Hertzfeld's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Andy Hertzfeld's Wife?
His wife is Joyce McClure (m. 1998)
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Wife |
Joyce McClure (m. 1998) |
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Not Available |
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Andy Hertzfeld Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Andy Hertzfeld worth at the age of 70 years old? Andy Hertzfeld’s income source is mostly from being a successful engineer. He is from United States. We have estimated Andy Hertzfeld's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
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Not Available |
| Source of Income |
engineer |
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Timeline
Andrew Jay Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) is an American software engineer who was a member of Apple Computer's original Macintosh development team during the 1980s.
After graduating from Brown University with a computer science degree in 1975, Hertzfeld attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley.
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 1978, he bought an Apple II computer and soon began developing software for it.
He went on to write for Call-A.P.P.L.E. and Dr. Dobb's Journal and soon came to the attention of Apple Computer.
He was hired by Apple Computer as a systems programmer in 1979 and developed the Apple Silentype printer firmware and wrote the firmware for the Sup'R'Terminal, the first 80-column card for the Apple II.
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.
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.
Hertzfeld was a member of the design team for the Apple Macintosh, which was conceived by human–computer interface expert Jef Raskin.
After a shakeup in the Apple II team and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's brief departure from the company due to a plane crash, co-founder Steve Jobs took control of the nearly two-year-old Macintosh team in February 1981 and added Hertzfeld to it at his request.
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 Raskin also made contributions.
Hertzfeld's business card at Apple listed his title as Software Wizard.
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.
After leaving Apple in 1984, Hertzfeld co-founded three new companies: Radius (1986), General Magic (1990), and Eazel (1999).
At Eazel, he helped to create the Nautilus file manager for Linux's GNOME desktop.
Since leaving Apple, Hertzfeld has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990, and Eazel in 1999.
In 1996, Hertzfeld was interviewed by Robert X. Cringely on the television documentary Triumph of the Nerds, and was again interviewed by Cringely on NerdTV in 2005.
In 2002, he helped Mitch Kapor promote open source software with the Open Source Applications Foundation.
He volunteered for the Open Source Applications Foundation in 2002 and 2003, writing early prototypes of Chandler, their information manager.
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.
The stories have been collected in an O'Reilly book, Revolution in the Valley, published in December 2004.
Hertzfeld worked at Google from 2005 to 2013, where in 2011, he was the key designer of the Circles user interface in Google+.
In August 2005, Hertzfeld joined Google.
On June 28, 2011, Google announced Google+, its latest attempt at social networking.
Hertzfeld was the key designer of the Google+ Circles interface.
He also worked on Picasa, and Gmail's profile image selector.
He retired from Google in July 2013.
Hertzfeld was portrayed by Elden Henson in the 2013 film Jobs.
Hertzfeld stated "almost nothing in it is how it really happened" about the Steve Jobs film, and that the film ultimately was not aiming for realism.
Hertzfeld attended Harriton High School.
He and his wife live in Palo Alto, California.
As of October 2018, he is an investor of the startup Spatial.
