Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin
The Origins and Impact of VisiCalc

 

Dan Bricklin is currently Chief Technology Officer of Interland, Inc., the leading supplier of business-class web hosting solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.

Mr. Bricklin is best known for codeveloping VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, while he was a student at the Harvard Business School. VisiCalc is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry.

Mr. Bricklin joined Interland when it acquired Trellix Corporation in 2003. Prior to founding Trellix in 1995, he served as president of Software Garden, Inc., where he developed a variety of software programs, including Dan Bricklin's Demo Program. Mr. Bricklin also cofounded Slate Corporation, a developer of application software for pen computers, as well as Software Arts, the developer of VisiCalc. Prior to forming Software Arts, he had been a market researcher for Prime Computer Inc., a senior systems programmer for FasFax Corporation, and a senior software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Bricklin is a founding trustee of the Massachusetts Software and Internet Council and has served on the boards of the Software Publishers Association and the Boston Computer Society.

Mr. Bricklin has received many honors for his contributions to the computer industry from the ACM, IEEE, MIT, PC Magazine, the Western Society of Engineers, and numerous others. Mr. Bricklin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Newbury College.

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