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Black History Month: John Henry Thompson - Inventor
This week for Black History Month, we’re celebrating John Henry Thompson, inventor, and scientist.
John Henry Thompson is the inventor of the Lingo programming language used in Adobe Director and a former Chief Scientist at Macromedia.
Early Years
He was born on the 15 June in 1959 and spent part of his childhood in Jamaica with his aunt.
Around the age of 5, he moved back to Essex, England and then at the age of 12, his parents, in search of a better life for their children moved from the United Kingdom to New York.
Even in high school, John Henry Thompson was interested in computer programming languages.
He taught himself several programming languages such as FORTRAN, PLI, COBOL and JCL while working in a New York research facility.
After graduating from High School, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he obtained a degree in Computer Science.
He had a passion for art and as such was did a mino