Mike Reed

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NationalityAmerican
OccupationAmerican Software Engineer

Mike Reed is an American software engineer, who is known for his work in 2D computer graphics and fonts.[1].

Career

TrueType

While working at Apple, Reed was part of the team who pioneered TrueType[2].

Additionally, he wrote RoyalT, the first TrueType font editor[3].

AlphaMask

Reed was the CEO of AlphaMask prior to its acquisition. AlphaMask made a portable 2D graphics engine: the AlphaMask Graphics Library (AGL)[4]

Google Chapel Hill

Reed started Google's Chapel Hill office location after the acquisition of his company Skia Inc[5][6].

References

  1. "Google in Chapel Hill: Entangled With Graphics | Duke Computer Science". www.cs.duke.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  2. "A History of TrueType". www.truetype-typography.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  3. "Part 1: from TrueType GX to Variable Fonts". Monotype. 2016-11-29. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  4. "AlphaMask brings its 2D graphics engine to Mac OS X". Macworld. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  5. "Executive Voice: How a Chapel Hill entrepreneur sold his startup to Google". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  6. "Inside Google's Chapel Hill outpost: A growing success story | WRAL TechWire". wraltechwire.com. 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2023-04-04.

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