Don Hopkins

Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in human computer interaction and computer graphics. He inspired Richard Stallman, who described him as a "very imaginative fellow", to use the term copyleft. He coined Deep Crack as the name of the EFF DES cracker, and built "AJAXian" applications for the NeWS window system 17 years before the term was coined . ported the SimCity computer game to several versions of Unix and developed a multi ... more

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