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
References
- ^ "Bob Frankston - bio". http://www.frankston.com/public/Bob_Frankston_Bio.asp. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
External links
- Bob Frankston's site/blog
- Biographical article from Smart Computing
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