Daniel dan bricklins biography

I&#;m not rich because I invented VisiCalc, but I feel that I&#;ve made a change in the world. That&#;s a satisfaction money can&#;t buy.
Dan Bricklin

In the spring of , a Harvard Business School student, Dan Bricklin, came up with the idea for an interactive visible calculator, the program (called VisiCalc), which will be called later the First Killer App of the Computer Era.

Bricklin certainly was not the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet. The first known ideas for such a program were from when Richard Mattessich (), Professor of Accounting at the University of British Columbia, pioneered the development of computerized spreadsheets for use in business accounting. Then in Rene Pardo and Remy Landau co-invented &#;LANPAR&#; LANguage for Programming Arrays at Random, an electronic spreadsheet-type application, which was used for budgeting at Bell Canada, AT&T, Bell operating companies, and General Motors. Mattessich, Pardo, and Landau&#;s work and that of other developers of spreadsheets on mainframe computers probably had no influence on Bricklin however. Thus, a history of the modern era of microcomputer-based electronic spreadsheets should begin with VisiC

Who is Dan Bricklin?

Daniel Singer "Dan" Bricklin, oftenreferred to as “The Father of the Spreadsheet”, is the American co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalcspreadsheet program. He also foundedSoftware Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currentlyowned by

Born
Jul 16,
Philadelphia
Also known as
  • Daniel S. Bricklin
  • Daniel Singer Bricklin
  • The Father of the Spreadsheet
Nationality
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    EECS
    ( - )
  • Harvard Business School
  • Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy
  • Harvard University
Employment
  • Software Arts
  • Digital Equipment Corporation
  • Trellix
  • Software Garden
  • SocialCalc Product Lead, Socialtext, Inc.
Lived in
  • United States of America
  • Philadelphia

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Dan Bricklin

Daniel Singer "Dan" Bricklin,referred to as “The Father of the Spreadsheet”, is the American co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned by currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of Alpha Software.

Dan Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Newbury College.

In , he founded Software Arts, where he served as chairman of the board and executive vice president until Their flagship product, VisiCalc, transformed the personal computer industry by providing an electronic spreadsheet for business users. For many such users, VisiCalc was the program that convinced them to purchase a PC. Prior to forming Software Arts, Bricklin was a market researcher for Prime Computer Inc., a senior systems programmer for FasFax Corporation, and a senior software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation, where he wa

Dan Bricklin helped fuel the rapid growth of the personal computer industry.

Why you should listen

Dan Bricklin is best known for codeveloping VisiCalc, the pioneering electronic spreadsheet, while he was a student at the Harvard Business School. VisiCalc, codeveloped with his friend Bob Frankston whom he met at MIT, is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry.

Bricklin helps create products that make it easier for business people to build mobile applications in his current role as CTO of Alpha Software Corporation. He is also president of Software Garden, Inc., a small consulting firm and developer of software applications that he founded in Its most popular products are Note Taker HD for the Apple iPad and before that Dan Bricklin's Demo Program for IBM PCs. In the past, Bricklin was cofounder of pen computer application developer Slate Corporation and founder of website builder developer Trellix Corporation.

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