Bob has been working with computers since 1963. He graduated from MIT with his undergraduate degrees in 1970 and continued in graduate school. He worked on the Multics projects as well as used the predecessor of the Internet beginning in 1969. Commercially he supported online services since 1966. In 1979 Bob went from the mainframe world to the PC industry and co-founded Software Arts with Dan Bricklin where he implemented Dan’s concept of VisiCalc. Bob was with Lotus Development from 1986 to 1990 where he created Lotus Express (and started Lotus.com though it was before the Web). At Microsoft from 1993 to 1998 Bob championed “IP Everywhere” (which is more than a problematic statement about incontinence) thus making networking accessible to consumers as “Home Networking”. Bob is now on his own pursuing a number of projects. You can read more about them at http://frankston.com/public.
Bob Frankston
Evangelist, IP Everywhere