Ken Dakin
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| Image:KennethDakin.jpg Kenneth Dakin in Shropshire. |
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| Born: | 18 November 1948 Crewe, England |
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| Occupation(s): | Entrepreneur/ software author |
| Nationality: | British |
| Writing period: | 1968-1994 |
| Subject(s): | testing, debuging, performance |
| Influences: | family genes |
| Influenced: | sons |
| Helicopter pilot | |
Kenneth Reginald Dakin (born November 18, 1948) is an English software developer and author of several software products for the IBM mainframe. He worked on the first interactive shared public spreadsheet at ICI Mond Division in the early 1970's and subsequently was CEO of Advanced Programming Techniques Ltd.
He currently lives in Ellesmere, England.
[edit] Works
- OLIVER (CICS interactive test/debug)
- SIMON (Batch Interactive test/debug)
- "Command/CICS" - Macro level CICS to Command level CICS runtime translator.
- "CICS/3270 Simulator" - Batch simulator for IBM 3270 terminals.
- "Works Records System" - first shared public spreadsheet for ICI.
- "WARP" - Performance product for IBM mainframes.
