Al Alcorn

Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948) was an Apple Fellow and the first person to hire future Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Education
Alcorn received a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1971 from the.

Atari
Alcorn joined Atari in 1972 and designed its first commercially successful video game,. In 1974, he hired a teenaged Steve Jobs into his first formal job. Later, Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak came to Alcorn's home to demo what would become the Apple I computer for Alcorn and Atari co-founder.

Apple Computer
In 1986, Alcorn joined Apple Computer, where he was designated an Apple Fellow. Alcorn led development of digital video compression that led to the creation of the MPEG standard. He left Apple in 1991.

After Apple
Alcorn founded Silicon Gaming in 1993 that applied video gaming technology to the industry. He presently heads technology at uGetit, a product invention, technology R&D, and professional consulting company.

Articles

 * The Inside Story of Pong and the Early Days of Atari by Leslie Berlin at Wired (2017-11-15)