Black History Month 2021 - John Henry Thompson
For Black History Month this year, Triplebyte's Design Team will be sharing illustrations of Black Pioneers in Computer Science.
John Henry Michael "JT" Thompson (born June 15, 1959) is the inventor of the Lingo programming language used in Adobe Director and a former Chief Scientist at Macromedia.
He is a former professor in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and instructor at Drexel University. He is committed to teaching and motivating successive scions of tech developers.
