Bob Frankston
Bob Frankston, 2012
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.
Frankston graduated in 1966 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City[1] and in 1970 from M.I.T.
Frankston has received numerous honors and awards for his work:
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994) "for the invention of VisiCalc, a new metaphor for data manipulation that galvanized the personal computing industry"
- MIT William L. Stewart Award for co-founding the M.I.T. Student Information Processing Board.
- The Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award (1985)
- The MIT LCS Industrial Achievement Award
- The Washington Award (2001) from the Western Society of Engineers (with Bricklin)
- In 2004, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for advancing the utility of personal computers by developing the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet."[2]
In recent years, Frankston has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the role of telecommunications companies in the evolution of the internet, particularly with respect to broadband and mobile communications.[3][4] He coined the term "Regulatorium" to describe what he considers collusion between telecommunication companies and their regulators that prevents change.[5][6]
References
- ↑ "Bob Frankston - bio". Retrieved 2007-10-31.
- ↑ "Bob Frankston". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
- ↑ Bob Frankston. The 2 Trillion Dollar Mistake. Presentation at Emerging Communications Conference 2008.
- ↑ "Ambient Connectivity". Retrieved 2009-12-30.
- ↑ "The Regulatorium and the Moral Imperative". Retrieved 2009-12-30.
- ↑ Doc Searls. "The Infrastructure Dynamic.". Retrieved 2009-12-30.
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- Bob Frankston's site/blog
- Biographical article from Smart Computing
- Bob Frankston interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network