Bob Frankston

Why Is Bob Frankston Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Robert M. Frankston is an American software engineer and businessman who co-created, with Dan Bricklin, the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Frankston is also the co-founder of Software Arts. Early life and education Frankston was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1966. He earned a S.B degree in computer science and mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a Master of Engineering degree in computer science, also from MIT.

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Bob Frankston's Published Works

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Published Works

Beyond limits (1997) (245)
Connecting (2019) (16)
Progressive Web Apps [Bits Versus Electrons] (2018) (5)
(Not) in Control of Your Home [Bits Versus Electrons] (2013) (4)
The Internet of Things Versus the Access Framing [Bits Versus Electrons] (2013) (4)
Mobile-Edge Computing Versus The Internet? (2016) (3)
Refactoring Consumer Electronics [Soapbox] (2013) (3)
Readings and References (1993) (2)
An Alien Drove My Car: A Cabbie from Mars? [Bits Versus Electrons] (2017) (2)
Deconstructing Television: Delivery, Content, and Policy. [Bits Versus Electrons] (2015) (1)
From Net Neutrality to Seizing Opportunity [Bits Versus Electrons] (2018) (1)
Building community network policies: a collaborative governance towards enabling frameworks (2019) (1)
The Problem of Leap Seconds (2017) (1)
Life (Yet To Be) Scripted [Bits Versus Electrons] (2014) (1)
#APIFirst: How Things Speak to Each Other [Bits Versus Electrons] (2015) (1)
The Internet and consumer electronics (1997) (1)
5G and the Internet: The Internet Versus Telecom [Bits Versus Electrons] (2017) (1)
(Not) Getting the Message Across [Bits Versus Electrons] (2014) (1)
Consumer Technology Versus 5G (2021) (1)
From Broadband to Infrastructure [Bits Versus Electrons] (2018) (1)
After TV: The Age of “Content” (2021) (1)
#APIFirst: How Things Speak to Each Other (2015) (1)
Connected Things [Bits Versus Electrons] (2014) (0)
Oral history interview with Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston (2004) (0)
Relationships Among Devices: IoT → RaD (2020) (0)
Communities of Things (2020) (0)
Seeing the Light-Properties of 400-800-Terahertz Radios [Bits Versus Electrons] (2019) (0)
Deconstructing "the Smartphone" [Bits Versus Electrons] (2013) (0)
Beyond the Interweb (2020) (0)
80/20 Consumer Electronics Bits Versus Electrons (2016) (0)
The Age of Software: An Introduction (2021) (0)
Empowering People … and Their Things (2021) (0)
Got API? [Bits Versus Electrons] (2018) (0)
The Internet Is About Relationships [Bits Versus Electrons] (2015) (0)
From Hi-Fi to CLI [Bits Versus Electrons] (2019) (0)
Trust and Insecurity (2023) (0)
Putting It All Together? [Bits Versus Electrons] (2015) (0)
Keynote I: Consumer electronics in the age of the Internet (2015) (0)
Whither Consumer Electronics [Bits Versus Electrons] (2017) (0)
The Public Packet Infrastructure (2022) (0)
HTML5 [Bits Versus Electrons] (2014) (0)
What I Want for CES (2020) (0)
Assembly Required: Rods, Belts, and Electrons [Bits Versus Electrons] (2018) (0)
Rewiring My House … and the World (2020) (0)
As a Service? [Bits Versus Electrons] (2019) (0)
Found Objects: A View From a Room [Bits Versus Electrons] (2019) (0)
The Stories of Software [Bits Versus Electrons] (2016) (0)
Connectivity Starts at Home [Bits versus Electrons] (2021) (0)
Bits vs. Things (2019) (0)
Site Insites: Refreshing [Bits Versus Electrons] (2017) (0)
The JavaScript Ecosystem (2020) (0)
A hacker's vacation [Bits Versus Electrons] (2016) (0)
Living the Beta Life (2021) (0)
Distributed Cooperation (2022) (0)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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