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	» Bob Frankston: No more monkeys jumping on the bed \| Between the Lines \| ZDNet.com
		Bob Frankston: No more monkeys jumping on the bed
		Bob Frankston, the guy who co-invented the electronic spreadsheet and who spearheaded Microsoft's original home network strategies, routinely rants about allowing intelligence into the middle of the Internet.
		To paraphrase his many essays, "things were working fine when nodes could just talk to each other without a monkey in the middle getting in the way to screw things up." Yet, over time, the industry has been unable to resist the temptation to breed such monkeys.
	blogs.zdnet.com /BTL/?p=3804 (837 words)

	About SATN.org, comments from Bob Frankston, David Reed, Dan Bricklin, and others
		Bob Frankston is best known as the co-creator (along with Dan Bricklin) of VisiCalc, the first of today's computer spreadsheet programs.
		Bob was with Lotus Development from 1986 to 1990 where he created Lotus Express (and started lotus.com).
		Bob's now on his own pursuing a number of projects, among them trying to explain the larger concepts of IP everywhere.
	www.satn.org /about (444 words)

	Joho the Blog: Connectivity 2002 - Tuesday Morning
		Bob Frankston is the conference chair and he's giving his presentation as we wait for The Dave Farber to show up.
		Bob, in response to a question, says that the incumbent business model pretends there's a scarcity of bandwidth so that it can maintain control over access and over prices.
		Bob Frankston (who is on the panel as an emeritus): The problem is that we treat email addresses as physical objects.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/000447.html (1050 words)

	Computer History Museum - Lectures - Bob Frankston
		Bob Frankston graduated from MIT receiving SB Degrees in both Computer Science and Mathematics in 1970 and Masters and Engineers Degrees in Computer Science (and EE) in 1974.
		Frankston consulted for ECD Corporation in 1977 and developed a very extended Basic for their multiprocessor 6502-based system.
		Frankston has received many awards and honors, including the MIT William L. Stewart Award for co-founding the SIPB; ACM Software System Award; PC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award; Esquire Magazine, The Best of the New Generation; MIT LCS Industrial Achievement Award, The Western Society of Engineers, 2001 Washington Award.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/lectures/visicalc_04082003/frankston (297 words)

	Dan Bricklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator with Bob Frankston of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program.
		He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from MIT, where he was a resident of Bexley Hall, and his MBA from Harvard University in 1979.
		Also in 1979 Bricklin and Frankston founded Software Arts, Inc. and began selling VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Bricklin (290 words)

	Bob Frankston Thinks the Economist Is Wrong: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
		Bob Frankston believes that the collapse of the telecom industry is a sign not of the problems but of the health of the economy and its underlying technological revolution.
		But Frankston thinks such services are trivially cheap to create "...with effective Internet connectivity the voice telephony business is like the typewriter business.
		Frankston does not understand the impact of legacy hardware in all this.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /movable_type/archives/000493.html (2526 words)

	Brief History of Spreadsheets, v. 3.6
		The first version was not very "powerful" so Bricklin recruited an MIT acquaintance Bob Frankston to improve and expand the program.
		The market for electronic spreadsheet software was growing rapidly in the early 1980s and VisiCalc stakeholders were slow to respond to the introduction of the IBM PC that used an Intel computer chip.
		Bob Frankston is "pursuing a number of projects..." at www.frankston.com.
	www.dssresources.com /history/sshistory.html (2333 words)

	How Comcast is blowing it with e-mail
		Bob Frankston doesn't think much of Comcast's decision to force current AT&T Broadband users to change their e-mail addresses (again).
		The real difficulty is in the lack of understanding that leads to changing people's email addresses (a form of their real names) just because of some reshuffling of share ownership of corporate entities.
		I agree with Bob; the people who had to suffer from the @home change are enduring one more affront and insult.
	www.networkworld.com /compendium/archive/002182.html (341 words)

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		Below is an abbreviated list of several of Bob Frankston’s jobs and their significance.
		This is a mainframe timesharing operating system that began as a research project and became an important influence on operating system development.Software ArtsThis is the company that Frankston and Bricklin created for the product Visicalc. Aside from his many respectable jobs Bob Frankston has had hundreds of his writings published.
		Shumate, 3 Bob Frankston a technology trailblazer Shumate, 4 Bibliography Cashman, Thomas J., Gary B. Shelly, and Misty E. Vermaat.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~al727706/project1.doc (593 words)

	Bloglines \| Citations
		Frankston has some hard words for Microsoft in the DRM essay linked below (emphasis, mine): Something is very wrong.
		Frankston talks about two important Supreme Court cases coming up — Grokster and Brand X — with an emphasis on the latter.
		Bob Frankston: Single Frequency Signaling and Single Hop Signaling.
	www.bloglines.com /citations?siteid=1172&itemid=49 (942 words)

	Daniel Bricklin
		Developed together with Bob Frankston the worlds first successfull spreadsheet program.
		There he worked at the Laboratory for Computer Science, programming various interactive systems, and where he met Bob Frankston.
		It was during his tenure as a graduate student that he conceived of the idea and design for the electronic spreadsheet, teaming up with his friend Bob Frankston to do the programming.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/bricklin_dan.html (635 words)

	Bob Frankston's recipes for a product that users will love
		Bob Frankston's recipes for a product that users will love
		Bob's account of how VisiCalc was implemented teaches us an important lesson in product design.
		It's a classic that every developer ought to read and come back to whenever he/she thinks that the users are complaining about petty silly little things.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/wlg/3038 (314 words)

	Brief History of Spreadsheets, v. 3.6
		The first version was not very "powerful" so Bricklin recruited an MIT acquaintance Bob Frankston to improve and expand the program.
		The market for electronic spreadsheet software was growing rapidly in the early 1980s and VisiCalc stakeholders were slow to respond to the introduction of the IBM PC that used an Intel computer chip.
		Bob Frankston is "pursuing a number of projects..." at www.frankston.com.
	dssresources.com /history/sshistory.html (2314 words)

	GBC/ACM: Meeting -- A Retrospective on Where We Have Been and Where We are Going
		Bob Frankston is best known as coinventor (with Dan Bricklin) of the spreadsheet.
		Bob has been working with computers since 1963.
		He graduated MIT with 2 degrees in 1970 and continued in graduate school, where he worked on the Multics project.
	www.gbcacm.org /website/semInfo.php?id=1023 (207 words)

	VON Magazine :: Sep/Oct 2003 :: VoIP Visions, by Bob Frankston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The exciting opportunity lies in the concept of unfettered CoIP and the ability to build new applications upon a simple uncluttered transport.
		MIT alumnus Bob Frankston was the co-developer (with Dan Bricklin) of the legendary VisiCalc.
		During his 1990s tenure at Microsoft, Frankston initiated the home networking effort which has made it possible for you to buy a small router and easily connect your home with the Internet.
	www.vonmag.com /issue/2003/sepoct/columns/frankston.asp (750 words)

	Joho the Blog: Frankston on Brand X
		Bob Frankston talks about two important Supreme Court cases coming up — Grokster and Brand X — with an emphasis on the latter.
		In Brand X, as I understand it, an ISP sued because it was denied access to a cable company's broadband lines.
		Bob notes elsewhere that these cases are well-timed for discussion at David Isenberg's Freedom2Connect.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/003775.html (175 words)

	A2Central.com - Your total source for Apple II computing. » Bob Frankston writes about the development of VisiCalc
		Bob Frankston writes about the development of VisiCalc
		Bob Frankston, one of the original programmers of VisiCalc, has written an article discussing the history and design of this historically significant program.
		VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program, and it was singlehandedly responsible for changing the personal computer from toy to business tool.
	www.a2central.com /portal/?p=134 (214 words)

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		It was with fellow college student Bob Frankston, that while a graduate student he developed what is today know as a electronic spreadsheet.
		Bricklin attended graduate school at Harvard University where he received an M.B.A. It was while he was at Harvard that he developed along with Bob Frankston, that he is now so well known for.
		Using Apple Basic on an Apple II computer Dan and Bob programmed the VisiCalc (Visual Calculator). To the left is a picture of Bob Frankston.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~ma522864/project1.doc (992 words)

	Gearlog : Gearlog Radio: Bob Frankston -- Make The Internet More Like Interstate Highways
		Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says the best way to provide Americans with bandwidth would be to follow the model of the Interstate Highway System: Make it available inexpensively to all.
		That doesn't mean Frankston, co-inventor of the first spreadsheet and a former Microsoft scientist, wants the government to take over the Internet, but he is serious about people and businesses being able to get as much bandwidth as they desire, almost for free.
		Gearlog is a registered trademark of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Ziff Davis Media Inc. is prohibited.
	gearlog.com /blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/01/06/4056.aspx (190 words)

	Bob Frankston Summary
		This development quickly led to industry standard programs such as Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel, which have since improved significantly, becoming exceptionally powerful tools for business management, finance, engineering design, and science.
		Robert (Bob) M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.
		Frankston graduated in 1966 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and in 1970 from M.I.T. Frankston has received numerous honors and awards for his work:
	www.bookrags.com /Bob_Frankston (218 words)

	Blog This: » Bob Frankston: No more monkeys jumping on the bed \| Between the Lines \| ZDNet.com
		Blog This: » Bob Frankston: No more monkeys jumping on the bed
		Bob Frankston: No more monkeys jumping on the bed by ZDNet's David Berlind -- Bob Frankston, the guy who co-invented the electronic spreadsheet and who spearheaded Microsoft's original home network strategies, routinely rants about allowing intelligence into the middle of the Internet.
		Bob Frankston: No more monkeys jumping on the bed by ZDNet's David Berlind -- Bob Frankston, the guy who co-invented the electronic spreadsheet and who spearheaded Microsoft's original home network strategies, routinely rants about allowing intelligence into the middle of the Internet.
	blogs.zdnet.com /BTL/index.php?blogthis=1&p=3804 (447 words)

	VisiCalc: Information from its creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston
		It has material directly from Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the co-creators of VisiCalc, including scans of original photographs from VisiCalc's development days, a working copy of the program, and other things from Software Arts, Inc., Dan and Bob's company.
		Adam Osborne Recording: A recording of Adam Osborne giving Dan and Bob the first award for creating VisiCalc and making a computer program that was worth buying a personal computer for.
		Pictures of Dan and Bob: There are publicity pictures of Dan and Bob in the Background Information section and on Bob's web site, and recent pictures in the Albums section (along with other computer industry people like Ray Ozzie, Tim Berners-Lee, and Bill Gates).
	www.bricklin.com /visicalc.htm (488 words)

	MuniWireless » Blog Archive » Bob Frankston: Connectivity is a Utility
		MuniWireless » Blog Archive » Bob Frankston: Connectivity is a Utility
		He graduated from MIT (undergrad) in 1970 and continued in graduate school.
		Bob is now on his own pursuing a number of projects among them, trying to explain the larger concepts of IP everywhere (see the essays for more).
	muniwireless.com /community/guests/869 (4204 words)

	PC World - Three Minutes: Godfathers of the Spreadsheet
		As VisiCalc turns 25, originators Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, and Dan Fylstra recall when people wondered what a spreadsheet was.
		After writing VisiCalc, Bob Frankston went on to pioneer early e-mail at Lotus, pen computing applications at Slate, and "IP everywhere" networking at Microsoft.
		[Frankston fires up his notebook to confirm this.]
	www.pcworld.com /article/id,116166-page,2-c,industrynews/article.html (762 words)

	Michael J.'s Notio: Bob Frankston
		I ended up sitting next to Bob Frankston, who, with Dan Bricklin (also in attendance) invented VisiCalc, setting fire to the personal computer revolution and effectively defining the very essence of "killer app."
		I have a lot of respect for Bob.
		I also enjoyed Bob's kindly-meant remark, though I confess to enjoying Dave's lightning response even more.
	www.notio.com /2003/02/bob_frankston.html (1863 words)

	Gearlog : VOIP
		Or wait for T-Mobile's upcoming UMA VOIP solution, which will have some sort of quality of service.
		Gearlog Radio: Bob Frankston -- Make The Internet More Like Interstate Highways
		Roughly the size of a computer mouse, the VoSKY Chatterbox 300 is a full-duplex speakerphone with adjustable volume and mute controls.
	gearlog.com /blogs/gearlog/archive/category/1029.aspx (554 words)

	SATN.org: Comments from Bob Frankston, David Reed, Dan Bricklin, and others
		SATN.org: Comments from Bob Frankston, David Reed, Dan Bricklin, and others
		I wrote this in response to a small ISP who was lamenting Bit Torrent because it was an abuse of the small amount of capacity he was reselling – calling them pirates.
		The Internet is a demonstration of the power of resilient design and the power of verifying rather than simply trusting the behavior of others.
	www.satn.org (5431 words)

	Bob Frankston: AOL & Roadrunner Have Left the Internet! - QuickTopic free message board hosting
		Bob Frankston: AOL & Roadrunner Have Left the Internet!
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	The Risks Digest Volume 20: Issue 78
		The following is a message I received via my subscription to this security jobs list.
		"Bob Frankston" Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:41:37 -0500
		Nature can't be fooled but we can do a fine job in deluding ourselves.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Risks/20.78.html (2840 words)

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