Robert (Bob) M. Frankston (born in 1949) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it. 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator with Bob Frankston of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. ... VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. ... Software Arts was a software company founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979 to develop VisiCalc, which was published by a separate company, Personal Software Inc. ...

Frankston graduated in 1966 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and in 1970 from M.I.T. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Stuyvesant High School (nicknamed Stuy) is one of 6 of New York Citys specialized math- and science-based public high schools. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ...

Son, Seth Elkin-Frankston and Ethan Elkin-Frankston

External links

• Bob Frankston's site/blog