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A lot of people don't realize that Dan Bricklin should be a household name in the PC business. Back in 1978, he and Bob Frankston came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet. Until then, ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alpha Software today announced Dan Bricklin has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer. The company also announced John Cullinane has become an advisor and ...

Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of the spreadsheet, was in Chelsea on Tuesday night (he lives in Massachusetts), talking about engineers and Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of the spreadsheet, was in Chelsea on ...

Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the developers of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software program, commemorated "National Spreadsheet Day" on Tuesday. Processing Content The event was hosted by ...

If ever someone was going to merge two technologies as disparate as wikis and spreadsheets, VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin might well be the person for the job. In 1979, Bricklin released VisiCalc, the ...

Weighing in at 498 pages (including a 22-page index), there is a definite “thud factor” to Dan Bricklin’s On Technology, a collection based on Bricklin’s blogs on a wide variety of technology-related ...

Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the ...

Dan Bricklin is known for his trademark jeans, his flannel shirts and his role in creating the first electronic spreadsheet. But he wants to make two things clear: he owns a tux and didn't get rich ...

I was interested to read an abstract of Dan Bricklin’s stimulating essay, “Software That Lasts 200 Years,” last year in NewsScan’s Innovation newsletter. Bricklin and Bob Frankston created VisiCalc in ...