Martin (Towle) King (5 April 1950 – 15 September 2010) was an inventor and entrepreneur based in Seattle, WA, United States.
He was one of the creators of the
T9 Predictive Text Entry system and founders of
Tegic Tegic Communications, Inc. was a predictive text company based in Seattle, Washington, United States, founded on November 18, 1996. It was acquired by AOL on December 3, 1999, and subsequently, on August 24, 2007, acquired by Nuance Communications, ...
, the company that developed it.
Martin went on to found or co-found several companies and other organisations, including:
* Ndiyo
*
Newnham Research
DisplayLink (formerly Newnham Research) is a semiconductor and software technology company. They develop the DisplayLink USB graphics technology, which is designed to connect computers and displays using USB, Ethernet, and WiFi. It also allows ...
(now
DisplayLink
DisplayLink (formerly Newnham Research) is a semiconductor and software technology company. They develop the DisplayLink USB graphics technology, which is designed to connect computers and displays using USB, Ethernet, and WiFi. It also allows ...
)
* Exbiblio
Martin King died in September 2010 at the age of 60, at his home on Vashon Island.
Obituaries include those found at:
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2010 deaths
1950 births