John H. Thompson

John Henry Michael Thompson, known as JT, was born on June 15, 1959 and is the inventor of the Lingo programming language used in Adobe Director. He is a former Chief Scientist at Macromedia, a former professor in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and a former instructor at Drexel University. He is a graduate of MIT and the Art Student League of New York. His parents moved from the United Kingdom to New York in search of a better life for their children, and he spent part of his childhood in Jamaica. In 2012 he returned to Jamaica to direct the Digital Jam 2.0 project, a series of mobile app development workshops, and the Institute of Jamaica honored him that year with the Silver Musgrave Medal for Science. He also wrote two Macromedia Director Lingo workshop books for Hayden Books.