Services like Meta’s Muse AI just increase demand for chips. But they’re also a big win for software ...

Individual user productivity is to Unified Communications as VisiCalc was to personal computing. VisiCalc, of course, was one the first software programs that enabled individuals to harness a PC to ...

VisiCalc was a ‘killer app’ years ahead of its time, and still says much about the way we understand computers Tidying my office the other day, as one does at this time of year, I came upon a shabby, ...

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 ...

It was 1979 when Dan Bricklin (MBA 1979) and Bob Frankston made history by launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers.

Dan Bricklin, co-author of the first electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc, became the first software pioneer to win the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers' (IEEE) Computer Entrepreneur Award ...