Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation. July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 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. ... VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Trellix was a software company whose various software offerings allowed web users to set up personal websites with the use of online publishing tools. ...

Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering/computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a resident of Bexley Hall, and his MBA from Harvard University in 1979. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Official website: http://www. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... Electrical engineers design power systems. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... 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 dormitories at MIT are famous in their own right. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

Also in 1979, Bricklin and Frankston founded Software Arts, Inc., and began selling VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. He was given a Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1981 for VisiCalc. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Although many awards have added Grace Hoppers name to them since her death in 1992, the original Grace Murray Hopper Awards have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bricklin was chairman of Software Arts until 1985, when he left to found Software Garden. He was the president of the company until he co-founded Slate Corporation in 1990. Slate closed in 1994 and so Bricklin returned to Software Garden. This article is about the year. ... This article is about the year. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV in Roman) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

In 1995 Bricklin founded Trellix Corporation. Trellix was bought by Interland, Inc., in 2003, and Bricklin became Interland's chief technology officer. 1995 (MCMXCV in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Interland, Inc. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chief Technical Officer or Chief Technology Officer, usually seen as CTO, is a business executive position whose holder is focussed on technical issues in a company. ...

He introduced the term "friend-to-friend networking" on August 11, 2000. bricklin.com A friend-to-friend (or F2F P2P) computer network is a particular type of anonymous P2P in which people use direct connections with their friends. F2F software only allows people you trust (using IP addresses or digital signatures you trust) to exchange files directly with your computer. ...

Bricklin is currently president of Software Garden, a small company which develops and markets software tools he creates (most notably "Dan Bricklin's Demo Program"), as well as providing speaking and consulting services.

He is also developing wikiCalc, a collaborative, basic spreadsheet running on the Web. wikiCalc is a combination of a wiki (user-editable website) with a spreadsheet calculation program. ...

External links

• DanBricklin.com
• Software Garden
• IMDb entry
• I'm working on a new product called wikiCalc, from Dan Bricklin's weblog on November 9, 2005, introducing wikiCalc
• This page has a link to Dan's interview conducted by Robert Cringely