ITP/IMA Thursday Night Talks: History of ICM with John Henry Thompson
John Henry Thompson invented lingo programming used in Macromedia Director and Shockwave. Lingo has been used to create flash and shockwave programs that now are prevalent in video games, web design, animation, and graphics.
Thompson studied art at the New York Student Art League and the Boston Museum School and earned a degree in Computer Science and Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1983. Thompson was the principal engineer for Macromedia Director, the inventor and developer of Lingo and XObjects, and a professor of new media at New York University—Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program.
From 1987 until 2001, Thompson was the chief scientist at Macromedia where he developed a number of products, including the VideoWorks Accelerator, VideoWorks II, MediaMaker, Action, and Macromedia Director. He became Senior Principal Software Engineer at Macromedia in 2003. John Thompson is now an owner of JHT Consulting, Bala Cynwyd, PA, which provides consulting services for web-based application development.
Join us to learn more about John Henry Thompson and the History of ICM!
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, Sept 29, 2022
Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm EST
Location:
ITP/IMA
370 Jay Street, 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY, 11201
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