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Computer spreadsheet programs have been around since 1979, when Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created VisiCalc. The breakthrough program turned the Apple II into an electronic ledger, allowing users ...

Anyone who uses Excel owes a debt of gratitude to Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the inventors of VisiCalc, the first personal computer spreadsheet. Both men attended the Massachusetts Institute of ...

In 2010, a pair of researchers published a controversial economics paper. It was cited by UK politicians to justify austerity measures that sparked economic and employment crises, and anti-austerity ...