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Encyclopedia > Bud Tribble

Guy "Bud" Tribble, MD, PhD, is Vice President of Software Technology at Apple Computer. Tribble served as the manager of the original Macintosh software development team. He was among the founders of NeXT computer, serving as NeXT's vice president of software development. Apple Computer, Inc. ... The box for Mac OS X v10. ... Look up Next in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Next can refer to: what comes after this one. ...


Tribble's career includes time at Sun Microsystems and Eazel. Sun Microsystems is a computer, semiconductor and software manufacturer headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley. ... Eazel was a computer software company based in Mountain View, California. ...


Tribble earned a BA degree in Physics at the University of California, San Diego and a MD and PhD in Biophysics and Physiology at the University of Washington, Seattle. When stuff moves. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ... Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology. ... Physiology (in Greek physis = nature and logos = word) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a major public research university in the Seattle metropolitan area. ...


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Apple Heroes and Villains: Hero: Guy L. 'Bud' Tribble (187 words)
Bud Tribble is a polymath, holding a medical degree and a Ph.D. in biophysics, which he worked on while also serving as the manager of the Macintosh software team.
Tribble's influence on the Mac is subtle but critical, and many of the Mac's most Mac-like attributes have his fingerprints on them, including desk accessories (which made a comeback recently as OS X's Dashboard) and the overall look and feel of the machine.
Tribble is a genius for naming, and is credited with dubbing Steve Jobs' personality a "reality-distortion field," as well as christening the Finder.
tribble: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (1343 words)
Tribbles are small, soft, gentle fictional animals in the Star Trek universe whose cute appearance and soothing purring endears them to every sentient race which encounters them — except Klingons.
Tribbles are native to the planet Iota Geminorum IV.
Tribbles is the name of a gene in the fruitfly genome that is responsible for stopping excessive cellular proliferation.
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