Michael Peirce

Michael Richard Peirce (born November 1961) is a former software engineer at Claris, a subsidiary of Apple.

Career
In the mid 1980s, Peirce developed EarthPlot, an early global mapping tool for classic Mac OS.

Claris
While at Claris, Peirce developed Public Folder, released in 1989 as the first peer-to-peer file sharing utility for classic Mac OS. A similar feature would not appear from Apple until 1991 as part of System 7.

After Claris
After leaving Claris, Peirce became an independent developer and wrote MemorySetter, a small application memory management utility for classic Mac OS that was released as part of the original release of Now Utilities in 1990. It was later released independently as App Sizer.

Recent patent filings indicate that Pierce has been continuing to work or contract with Apple Inc. on technology related to remote control of presentations at least since 2008.

Books

 * Programming with AppleTalk by Michael Peirce, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1991.