Bob Frankston

Bob Frankston in 2005.

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)
• Fellow of the Computer History Museum

[edit] References

1. ^ "Bob Frankston - bio". Retrieved on 2007-10-31.

[edit] External links

• Bob Frankston's site/blog
• Biographical article from Smart Computing

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