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Bricklin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , where he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy during his High School years. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology , where he was a resident of Bexley Hall , and his MBA from Harvard University in 1979 . Also in 1979, Bricklin and Frankston founded Software Arts, Inc., and began selling VisiCalc, the first Spreadsheet program available for Personal Computer s. He was given a Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1981 for VisiCalc. Bricklin was chairman of Software Arts until 1985 , when he left to found Software Garden. He was the president of the company until he co-founded Slate Corporation in 1990 . Slate closed in 1994 and so Bricklin returned to Software Garden. In 1995 Bricklin founded Trellix Corporation. Trellix was bought by Interland, Inc. , in 2003 , and Bricklin became Interland's Chief Technology Officer . He introduced the term " Friend-to-friend networking" on August 11, 2000. bricklin.com Bricklin is currently president of Software Garden, a small company which develops and markets software tools he creates (most notably "Dan Bricklin's Demo Program"), as well as providing speaking and consulting services. He is also developing WikiCalc , a collaborative, basic spreadsheet running on the Web. EXTERNAL LINKS
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