Dennis Austin

Biography

Dennis Robert Austin (May 28, 1947 – September 1, 2023) was an American software developer. He played a pivotal role as the lead software developer for PowerPoint between 1985 and 1996, focusing primarily on its versions tailored for Apple Macintosh computers. Austin's initial encounter with computers took place during a high school summer program at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. This ignited a profound interest in programming languages and compilers, which he further cultivated during his undergraduate engineering studies at the University of Virginia in the late 1960s.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

91 releases · 12 albums · active 1977–2011

  • Performance · 131
  • Production · 58
  • Other credits · 6
  • Engineering · 5

Studios: Bosstown Recording Studios · Studio LaCoCo · Larrabee Sound Studios · Cheshire Sound Studios

Frequent collaborators

  • Bobby Brown
  • La Rue (5)
  • Various
  • B. Brown Posse
  • Trevor Watts String Ensemble
  • Jamm
  • Linda Lewis
  • Lateasha

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