Tom Pittard

Thomas Strozier "Tom" Pittard was a senior research engineer in the Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computer.

Family and education
Tom Pittard is the son of James Dillard "Jim" Pittard Jr., descendant of the Duke of Mont Sarrette, who traveled to America on the same ship that the had used, and fought in the.

The younger Pittard studied fine arts painting at what is now the in. In 1978, he received a B.A. in media communications and filmmaking from the.

Career
After graduating, Pittard worked at Atari contributing to games and programming automation for manufacturing.

Apple Computer
Pittard joined Apple in February 1981 as employee #1926. He worked in the product engineering group on video hardware and processor architectures such as ARM. He later joined the Apple Advanced Technology Group and received an award in 1990 for his work on hyperlinks and multimedia over prototype broadband networks. Pittard left Apple in August 1991.

After Apple
Pittard joined in 1991 where he became a principal network protocol architect and worked for 4 years. He then worked as a consultant on various projects and is presently semi-retired as a fine arts painter. Pittard resides in California and Taiwan with his wife Lan-Yu Hsieh.