Name: Robert (Bob) M. Frankston

Born: June 14, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York, USA

  • Co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program.
  • Co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed VisiCalc.

Honors and awards

  • The Washington Award from the Western Society of Engineers (2001).
  • Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994).
  • Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award (1985).
  • MIT William L. Stewart Award.
  • Fellow of the Computer History Museum.
  • Dan Bricklin

Websites

  • Robert Frankston personal website