Don Hopkins
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- This article is about the artist and programmer. For the Professor of Management, see Harold Donald Hopkins.
Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in computer-human interaction and computer graphics. He invented pie menus, inspired Richard Stallman to use the term copyleft, built imaginative applications for the NeWS window system, ported the SimCity computer game to several versions of Unix and developed a multi player version of SimCity for X11, and did much of the core programming of The Sims. Don also wrote the demonstrations that showed off the capabilities of the ScriptX multimedia scripting language created by the Apple/IBM research spinoff Kaleida Labs, and has developed various OpenLaszlo applications and components.
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