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Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet

Dan Bricklin · TED

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About

Dan Bricklin changed the world forever when he codeveloped VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet and grandfather of programs you probably use every day like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Join the software engineer and computing legend as he explores the tangled web of first jobs, daydreams and homework problems that led to his transformational invention.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxBeaconStreet
Speaker
Dan Bricklin
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Computer science, Business and management, History, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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