Foundings: Augusta's healthcare from conception to birth

by Bill Atkinson, William P. Kanto (Introduction), Daniel R. Pearson (Designer)

FOUNDINGS tells the history of every major Augusta, Georgia healthcare organization from its conception to its first unit of service giving credit to those who had the dreams and courage to make it happen. In addition the book cites, as an example, one major failure of the city to kept up with the health needs of its people.

62 pages, Paperback

Published November 7, 2013

About the author

William Dana Atkinson was an American computer engineer, computer programmer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. Some of Atkinson's noteworthy contributions to the field of computing include Macintosh QuickDraw and Lisa LisaGraf (Atkinson independently discovered the midpoint circle algorithm for fast drawing of circles by using the sum of consecutive odd numbers), Marching ants, the Menu bar, the selection lasso, MacPaint (FatBits), HyperCard, Atkinson dithering, and the app PhotoCard.