Bruce Horn

Bruce Lawrence Horn (born 1960) is a software engineer. He developed the Finder and the Resource Manager as a member of the original Macintosh design team at Apple Computer. His signature is among those molded into the case of the Macintosh 128K.

Education
Horn received a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University in 1982 and a M.S. and Ph.D. from in Computer Science in 1994. Horn was a student in the Learning Research Group (1973–1981) at Xerox PARC, where was developed under Alan Kay. While there, he worked on various projects including the NoteTaker, a portable Smalltalk machine, and wrote the initial Dorado Smalltalk microcode for Smalltalk.

Career
Horn self-published his programs through Ingenuity Software. He was then employed by as the principal development manager of the Natural Language Technology group. Powerset was acquired by Microsoft in the fall of 2008 and became part of Bing.

Horn served on the board of advisors of The Liquid Information Company (formerly The Hyperwords Company), which worked to make the web more usefully interactive through a free browser plug-in called "".

Horn joined Intel in 2012 and became an Intel Fellow and Chief Scientist for Smart Device Innovation in the New Devices Group. He is presently a Distinguished Engineer at Ambassador (formerly Datawire.io).