John Henry Michael "JT" Thompson (born June 15, 1959)[1] is the inventor of the Lingo programming language used in Adobe Director and a former Chief Scientist at Macromedia.
He is committed to teaching and motivating successive scions of tech developers.
His parents, in search of a better life for their children moved from the United Kingdom to New York.
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 for Science in 2012 by the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ).