Daniel Bricklin

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Daniel Bricklin

• Patrick Reel

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Background

• Known as The Father of the Spreadsheet
• Born in Philadelphia in 1951
• Started programming while in high school
• Science fair project- extended FORTRAN
• Program-marking entrance tests at an Ivy League
  University
• 1973- received his B.S. (M.I.T)
• Harvard-Masters in 1979

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Profession

• Worked for Digital Equipment Corporation( DEC)
• FasFax (cash register manufacturer)
• Co-founded Software Arts (Bob Frankston)
• Chairman 1979-85
• President of Software Garden, Inc. 1985-present
• Vice-President of Slate Corporation 1992
• Founded Trellix Corporation in 1995
• Serves as Chief Technology Officer

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What he has done

• While at DEC
• Project lead - WPS-8
• Helped specify and develop the first word
  processing systems
• While working at Software Arts
• Designed the first spreadsheet program
• VisiCalc ( first killer app. for PC) for Apple 2

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What he has done cont.

• During his time at Software Gardens
• Developed two programs for prototyping and
  simulating other pieces of software
• Dan Bricklins Demo Program(1986) Dan
  Bricklins Demo 2 Program(1987)

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What he has done cont.

• 1989-created the Dan Bricklins PageGarden
  Program
• Facilitates repetitive printing on laser printers
• Helped create the OverAll Viewer
• Reads data normally as text and displays it in a
  graphical format

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OverAll Viewer
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Awards

• 1981- Grace Murray Hopper Award
• Awarded by the Association For Computing History
• Outstanding young computer professional of the
  year
• Software Publishers Association Award of Best
  Programming Tool ( 1986 and 1987)

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Sources

• http//www.thocp.net/biographies/bricklin_dan.html
  
• http//ei.cs.vt.edu/histoy/BRICKLIN.Fleming.HTML