Robert Frankston
Updated: 12/30/2019 by Computer Hope
Name: Robert (Bob) M. Frankston
Born: June 14, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Computer-related contributions
- 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.