Mobile Expert Interviews: Dan Bricklin, Co-Developer of the First "Killer App"
I am excited to share an interview I conducted yesterday in Boston with a member of software programming royalty, Dan Bricklin. Dan was the co-developer of the world's first software "killer app", Visicalc . Visicalc, a spreadsheet app for the Apple II series of personal computers, was so popular in the 1980s, that companies spent thousands of dollars on computers just to run the $100 software program. Dan worked closely with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates many others in the early years of personal computers. His life is outlined here on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bricklin . Dan still programs and designs productivity apps. He is the CTO of Alpha Software , the developers of sophisticated digital forms for mobile devices. Dan has received many honors for his contributions to the computer industry from the ACM, IEEE, MIT, PC Magazine, the Western Society of Engineers, and others. In 1981, he was given a Grace Murray Hopper Award for VisiCalc. In 1996, B