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I propose renaming this article "Steve Ball (England)", to make room for a short biography named "Steve Ball" (alternatively "Steve Ball (USA)").
Based in Seattle, Washington, the American Steve Ball is guitarist, graphic designer, sound engineer, and entrepreneur; in particular, he apparently (a) led the development of the sound system of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, which featured the start-up sounds of Robert Fripp, his friend (and the other half of Fripp & Eno--- Brian Eno having developed the previous start-up sound for Windows). (b) As a graphic artist, he developed the logos for Guitar Craft and Discipline Global Mobile. (c) All Music lists a number of his albums and his compositions (often with The League of Crafty Guitarists. He has also been involved with several start-up companies, apparently, but I don't have reliable sources yet. (There is a not-for-quotation sketch in my userspace's sandbox.)
Ball himself corrected an erroneous linking of his name here, suggesting " Steve Ball (musician)", which is too narrow, I believe; even " Steve Ball (artist)" leaves out his most notable achievement, the software- and sound-engineering of Microsoft Vista.
Thanks for your help. I leave two questions below.
Sincerely, Kiefer. Wolfowitz 11:50, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Questions
"Within software engineering, programming (the implementation) is regarded as one phase in a software development process.
There is an ongoing debate on the extent to which the writing of programs is an art, a craft or an engineering discipline. [1]
- ^ Paul Graham (2003). "Hackers and Painters". Retrieved 2006-08-22.
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I removed a BLP violation before. Kiefer. Wolfowitz 11:50, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
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I propose renaming this article "Steve Ball (England)", to make room for a short biography named "Steve Ball" (alternatively "Steve Ball (USA)").
Based in Seattle, Washington, the American Steve Ball is guitarist, graphic designer, sound engineer, and entrepreneur; in particular, he apparently (a) led the development of the sound system of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, which featured the start-up sounds of Robert Fripp, his friend (and the other half of Fripp & Eno--- Brian Eno having developed the previous start-up sound for Windows). (b) As a graphic artist, he developed the logos for Guitar Craft and Discipline Global Mobile. (c) All Music lists a number of his albums and his compositions (often with The League of Crafty Guitarists. He has also been involved with several start-up companies, apparently, but I don't have reliable sources yet. (There is a not-for-quotation sketch in my userspace's sandbox.)
Ball himself corrected an erroneous linking of his name here, suggesting " Steve Ball (musician)", which is too narrow, I believe; even " Steve Ball (artist)" leaves out his most notable achievement, the software- and sound-engineering of Microsoft Vista.
Thanks for your help. I leave two questions below.
Sincerely, Kiefer. Wolfowitz 11:50, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Questions
"Within software engineering, programming (the implementation) is regarded as one phase in a software development process.
There is an ongoing debate on the extent to which the writing of programs is an art, a craft or an engineering discipline. [1]
- ^ Paul Graham (2003). "Hackers and Painters". Retrieved 2006-08-22.
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I removed a BLP violation before. Kiefer. Wolfowitz 11:50, 29 March 2012 (UTC)