Bruce Daniels is an American hydroclimatologist, business executive and computer programmer. He is known in

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as one of the pioneers of the personal computer and user-friendly interfaces. Daniels earned his Ph.D. from the

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after receiving an Sc.B. and S.M. in computer science from

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. He specializes in water-related impacts of climate change, especially in the American West. His contributions to decisions concerning California water quality date to 2003, when he was appointed to the state's Regional Water Quality Control Board. In 2011, he was honored as an ARCS Scholar in Northern California. In 2016, he serves as the elected president of the board of directors of the Soquel Creek Water District in

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. Daniels has also been a computer programmer and business executive who has worked for Hewlett Packard, Apple Computer, Oracle, Borland, Sun Microsystems and his own start-up, Singular Software, which created relational database management software for the

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. He was a lead programmer for the

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,"An Interview with Wayne Rosing, Bruce Daniels, and Larry Tesler: A behind the scenes look at the development of Apple's Lisa,"
''Byte,'' February 1983, p.90+ and a software manager for the Apple Lisa. When he was still a student at the

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, he was one of the creators of an early personal computer game,

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