Larry Yaeger

Larry Steven Yaeger (born 1950) is a retired engineer who was a distinguished scientist at Apple Computer.

Education
Yaeger received a BS in aerospace engineering from in 1972 and a MS in aerospace engineering from the  in 1974.

Career
Yaeger joined in 1982 where he became the director of software development. He used a supercomputer to produce special effects for the films ' and ', both released in 1984. He also collaborated with on the computer-generated opening sequence of , which was released in 1986.

Apple Computer
Yaeger joined Apple Computer in 1987 and became a member of Apple Research Laboratories. He worked on implementing the print handwriting recognition of Newton OS 2.0, and later ported the technology as "Inkwell" for use in Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3.

After Apple
Yaeger became a professor of informatics at in August 2004 and left Apple in February 2006. He developed the computational ecology to explore concepts of. In September 2012, Yaeger joined Google as a software engineer. He retired in in August 2018.