Dan Bricklin

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Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin
BornJuly 16 1951 (1951--) (age 56)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Residence U.S.
Nationality U.S.
Known forVisiCalc
WikiCalc
Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the 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 Web.com.

Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, where he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy during his High School years. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering/computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a resident of Bexley Hall, and his MBA from Harvard University in 1979.

Also in 1979, Bricklin and Frankston founded Software Arts, Inc., and began selling VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. He was given a Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1981 for VisiCalc.

Bricklin was chairman of Software Arts until 1985, when he left to found Software Garden. He was the president of the company until he co-founded Slate Corporation in 1990. Slate closed in 1994 and so Bricklin returned to Software Garden. In 1994 he was also inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

In 1995 Bricklin founded Trellix Corporation. Trellix was bought by Interland now Web.com, in 2003, and Bricklin became Interland's chief technology officer.

He introduced the term "friend-to-friend networking" on August 11, 2000. [1]

In 2003, Bricklin was given the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for being a technology change leader. He was recognized for having used information technology in an industry-transforming way.

Bricklin is currently president of Software Garden, a small company which develops and markets software tools he creates (most notably "Dan Bricklin's Demo Program"), as well as providing speaking and consulting services.

He is also developing wikiCalc, a collaborative, basic spreadsheet running on the Web.

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NAMEBricklin, Dan
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SHORT DESCRIPTIONVisiCalc inventor
DATE OF BIRTHJuly 16 1951 (1951--) (age 56)
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VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. It is considered[Who?] to be the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool.
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Robert (Bob) M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.
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VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. It is considered[Who?] to be the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool.
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Trellix was a software company whose various software offerings allowed web users to set up personal websites with the use of online publishing tools. Located in Concord, Massachusetts, the company was founded in 1997 and was purchased by Interland (now Web.com) in 2003.
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