# John Thompson (inventor)

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**John Henry Michael "JT" Thompson** (born June 15, 1959)[1] is the inventor of the [Lingo](/source/Lingo_(programming_language)) programming language used in [Adobe Director](/source/Adobe_Director) and a former Chief Scientist at [Macromedia](/source/Macromedia).[2][3][4][5] He is a former professor in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the [New York University Tisch School of the Arts](/source/New_York_University_Tisch_School_of_the_Arts) and instructor at Drexel University. He is committed to teaching and motivating successive scions of tech developers. He is a graduate of [MIT](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) and the Art Student League of New York.[6]

He spent part of his childhood in [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica). His parents, in search of a better life for their children moved from the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) to New York. In 2012 he returned to his homeland Jamaica, to implement the Digital Jam 2.0 project. This included directing a course of [mobile apps development](/source/Mobile_app_development) workshops. According to him the vision for the project was to "export an innovative software development strategy to enable Jamaican youth to prosper in the global internet knowledge economy." He was honored for his innovations and commitment to coaching with the Silver [Musgrave Medal](/source/Musgrave_Medal) for Science in 2012 by the [Institute of Jamaica](/source/Institute_of_Jamaica) (IOJ).[6]

## Publications

- Thompson, John (1996). *Macromedia Director Lingo workshop for Windows*. 2nd ed. Hayden Books. ISBN 1-56830-269-X. LCCN 96075194. [OCLC 35395724](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35395724)
- Thompson, John (1996). *Macromedia Director Lingo workshop for Macintosh*. 2nd ed. Hayden Books. ISBN 1-56830-287-8. LCCN 96077061. [OCLC 35289235](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35289235)

## References

1. ["Thompson, John, 1959-"](http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96017161). *LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies*. [Library of Congress](/source/Library_of_Congress). Retrieved 2020-04-13.

1. ["John Thompson"](http://ghn.ieee.org/wiki/index.php/John_Thompson). *[IEEE](/source/IEEE)*. IEEE. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120426062915/http://ghn.ieee.org/wiki/index.php/John_Thompson) 26 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["John Thompson"](http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/John_Thompson). *www.ieeeghn.org*. IEEE. [Archived](https://archive.today/20130415030102/http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/John_Thompson) 15 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

1. ["John Thompson"](http://ethw.org/John_Thompson). *ETHW*. Retrieved 2018-03-27.

1. ["John Henry Thompson: Computer Programming and Software Inventions"](http://www.black-inventor.com/John-Thompson.asp). *www.black-inventor.com*. Black Inventors. Retrieved 2018-03-27.

1. admin (2016-02-11). ["Black History Month Spotlight: John Henry Thompson"](https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/black-history-month-feature/black-history-month-spotlight-john-henry-thompson/). *Caribbean News*. Retrieved 2020-02-11.

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