Theodor Holm Nelson was born on June 17,1937 and is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist.
13 Facts About Ted Nelson
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Ted Nelson coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965.
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Ted Nelson is the son of Emmy Award-winning director Ralph Ted Nelson and Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm.
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Ted Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960, with the goal of creating a computer network with a simple user interface.
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Ted Nelson has alleged that the Nelson Organization was envisaged as a clandestine funding conduit for the Central Intelligence Agency, which expressed interest in Project Xanadu at an early juncture; however, the promised funds failed to materialize after several benchmarks were met.
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At the behest of Xanadu developers Mark S Miller and Stuart Greene, Nelson joined San Antonio, Texas-based Datapoint as chief software designer, remaining with the company as a media specialist and technical writer until its Asher Edelman-driven restructuring in 1984.
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On his own website, Ted Nelson expressed his disgust with the criticisms, referring to Wolf as "Gory Jackal", and threatened to sue him.
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Ted Nelson outlined his objections in a letter to Wired, and released a detailed rebuttal of the article.
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In 1957, while a student, Ted Nelson co-wrote and co-produced what he describes as a pioneering Rock Musical.
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In 1976, Nelson co-founded and briefly served as the advertising director of the "itty bitty machine company", or "ibm", a small computer retail store that operated from 1977 to 1980 in Evanston, Illinois.
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Ted Nelson developed XanaduSpace, a system for the exploration of connected parallel documents.
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In January 1988 Byte magazine published an article about Ted Nelson's ideas, titled "Managing Immense Storage".
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In 1998, at the Seventh WWW Conference in Brisbane, Australia, Ted Nelson was awarded the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award.