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Daniel Singer Bricklin is an American businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix, which he left in 2004. He currently serves as the chief technology officer of Alpha Software.
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business · American businessman and engineer (born 1951) · computer scientist · entrepreneur · inventor · programmer · engineer · also Dan Bricklin, Daniel S. Bricklin, Daniel Singer Bricklin, Daniel Bricklin, Bricklin
Born 16 July 1951 · Q92624
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We mourn the death of John Dvorak. In Jan'09 he wrote a critique of spreadsheets for VisiCalc's 30th anniversary. I responded with a blog post: danbricklin.com/log/2008_11_... "He is a real gentleman in person and is very thoughtful...he also knows his craft, which is to entertain his audience."
R.I.P. John Dvorak, one of the most influential tech journalists and commentators. I'll miss his amiable crankiness.
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“We mourn the death of John Dvorak. In Jan'09 he wrote a critique of spreadsheets for VisiCalc's 30th anniversary. I responded with a blog post: danbricklin.com/log/2008_11_... "He is a real gentleman in person and is very thoughtful...he also knows his craft, which is to entertain his audience."”
“R.I.P. John Dvorak, one of the most influential tech journalists and commentators. I'll miss his amiable crankiness.”
“I just learned sad news that Vern Raburn, a pioneer in the early days of personal computing, died last month. He was instrumental in first getting Microsoft into apps. I worked with him at Slate, an early pen-computer S/W company. He was also a pioneer in aviation. May his memory be a blessing.”
“Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker. www.nytimes.com”
“Very sorry to hear about the death of Aldus founder Paul Brainerd, the giant who gave us PageMaker and the desktop publishing revolution that followed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I used PageMaker to put together my animation fanzine, which led directly to my career in tech journalism. RIP.”
“It’s the 42nd anniversary of Steve Jobs unveiling the Mac, so here’s my 2014 article on him showing it off at the Boston Computer Society six days later, with video. (It’s better quality than the video of the earlier event, which was so bad John Sculley apologized for it.) time.com/1847/steve-j...”
“I attended a recent Vision Pro developer event at Apple Park and talked to a bunch of folks about the rewards and challenges of creating immersive media for the platform. www.fastcompany.com/91461534/app...”
Published video “Spreadsheet Champions movie: Bricklin & Frankston Q&A”.
“I was interviewed for the Learning from Machine Learning podcast. I'm really happy with how it turned out. (They edited it well to make me sound coherent.) "Lessons from Building the First Killer App" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd85... and rss.com/podcasts/lea...”
“Apple announced today it's adding spatial pen input to #VisionPro. The API supports the Logitech Muse pen (coming later this year). See this developer video of a 3D sculpting app with fine control: developer.apple.com/videos/play/... . It has position, buttons, and haptics (Yay!).”
Harvard Business School: Dan Bricklin Classroom, Aldrich Hall 108
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (2023).
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Published video “Note Taker HD AppStore Preview for iPhone”.
Published video “IBM PC Announcement - Software Arts Staff Meeting, August 12, 1981”.
Published video “Dan Bricklin's OverAll Viewer demo and tutorial 2 of 2”.
Published video “Dan Bricklin's OverAll Viewer demo and tutorial 1 of 2”.
Published video “Simple business app with Alexa”.
Published video “Slate Product Overviews - June 1992”.
Published video “Responsive App Design”.
Published video “How the Responsive App Design Demo Was Built With Alpha Anywhere”.
Published video “Responsively Laying Out Web Apps”.
Observer: Dan Bricklin, Co-Inventor of the Spreadsheet, Discusses How Nerds Are Like Sports Stars
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2004).
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Forbes: Legends: Dan Bricklin
Was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for advancing the utility of personal computers by developing the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet
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For the invention and creation of the electronic spreadsheet
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And Bricklin became Interland's chief technology officer until early 2004
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Bricklin was given the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for being a technology change leader
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Awarded Washington Award (2001).
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Bricklin was awarded by the IEEE Computer Society with the Computer Entrepreneur Award for pioneering the development and commercialization of the spreadsheet and the profound changes it fostered in business and industry
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Bricklin founded Trellix Corporation, named for Trellix Site Builder
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Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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Bricklin returned to Software Garden
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Bricklin was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Became the vice president of Phoenix-based Slate corporation, and developed At Hand, a pen-based spreadsheet
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Awarded ACM Software System Award (1985).
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Awarded Grace Murray Hopper Award (1981).
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Bricklin was given a Grace Murray Hopper Award for VisiCalc
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Making it the first electronic spreadsheet readily available for home and office use
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Bricklin and Frankston founded Software Arts, Inc
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Returned to education, and was awarded a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University in 1979
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Born 1951-07-16.
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I just learned sad news that Vern Raburn, a pioneer in the early days of personal computing, died last month. He was instrumental in first getting Microsoft into apps. I worked with him at Slate, an early pen-computer S/W company. He was also a pioneer in aviation. May his memory be a blessing.
Very sorry to hear about the death of Aldus founder Paul Brainerd, the giant who gave us PageMaker and the desktop publishing revolution that followed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I used PageMaker to put together my animation fanzine, which led directly to my career in tech journalism. RIP.
It’s the 42nd anniversary of Steve Jobs unveiling the Mac, so here’s my 2014 article on him showing it off at the Boston Computer Society six days later, with video. (It’s better quality than the video of the earlier event, which was so bad John Sculley apologized for it.) time.com/1847/steve-j...
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