Daniel Singer Bricklin was born on July 16,1951 and is an American businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program.
23 Facts About Dan Bricklin
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Dan Bricklin currently serves as the chief technology officer of Alpha Software.
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Dan Bricklin was born in a Jewish family in Philadelphia, where he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy.
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Dan Bricklin began his college as a mathematics major, but soon switched to computer science.
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Dan Bricklin earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, where he was a resident of Bexley Hall.
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Dan Bricklin was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1981 for VisiCalc.
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Dan Bricklin was chairman of Software Arts until 1985, the year that Software Arts was acquired by Lotus.
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Dan Bricklin founded Software Garden, a small consulting firm and developer of software applications, in 1985.
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Dan Bricklin remained the president of the company until he co-founded Slate Corporation in 1990.
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When Slate closed in 1994, Dan Bricklin returned to Software Garden.
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In 1995 Dan Bricklin founded Trellix Corporation, named for Trellix Site Builder.
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Dan Bricklin continues to serve as president of Software Garden, a small company that develops and markets software tools he creates, as well as providing speaking and consulting services.
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Dan Bricklin has released Note Taker HD, an application that integrates handwritten notes on the Apple iPad tablet.
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Dan Bricklin is developing wikiCalc, a collaborative, basic spreadsheet running on the Web.
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Dan Bricklin is currently the chief technology officer of Alpha Software in Burlington, Massachusetts, a company that creates tools to easily develop cross-platform mobile business applications.
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In 1994, Dan Bricklin was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Dan Bricklin is a founding trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and has served on the boards of the Software Publishers Association and the Boston Computer Society.
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Dan Bricklin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for the invention and creation of the electronic spreadsheet.
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In 1981, Dan Bricklin was given a Grace Murray Hopper Award for VisiCalc.
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In 2003, Dan Bricklin was given the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for being a technology change leader.
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Dan Bricklin was recognized for having used information technology in an industry-transforming way.
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Dan Bricklin has received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Newbury College.
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Dan Bricklin became a member of the National Academy of Engineering.