Kirsch, Steve oral history
Steve Kirsch invented an early form of the optical mouse while studying at MIT, then founded Mouse Systems to commercialize it. In 1986 he co-founded Frame Technology which developed the FrameMaker document publishing software. His next start-up was Infoseek in 1993, pioneering advertising-supported Internet search. In 1999 he started Propel which sold web-page compression and caching software, followed in 2005 by Abaca, which produced a spam filter application with ranked quarantine. In 2011 he started OneID which tried to get strong cryptographic authentication universally adopted. As of 2018, his latest start-up is Token, founded in 2015, which sells an open banking software platform. He has received awards for philantropic giving and for encouraging others to give.
Item Details
- Date
- 2016-10-11 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102717223
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Marc Weber (Interviewer)
Steve Kirsch (Interviewee)
Gunter Steinbach (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X7976.2017