Dan Bricklin: Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet
دان بريكلين: تعرّف على مخترع الجدول الإلكتروني
Dan Bricklin helped fuel the rapid growth of the personal computer industry. Full bio
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an electronic spreadsheet,
with a spreadsheet by hand,
جدول حسابات تقليدي،
printing business in Philadelphia?
صغيرة في فيلاديلفيا؟
for hundreds of years.
I started working on an idea
إلى (فيزيكالك).
called an Apple II personal computer.
had really changed when, six years later,
بشدة بعد ست سنين
مقالاً افتتاحياً
and maybe even were using it.
ولربما كنت تستخدمه حتى.
propelled the industry forward."
إلى الأمام."
more than any other single event."
أكثر من أي حدث آخر."
for some other computer,
من أجل حاسوب آخر،
somebody else right now."
في هذه اللحظة."
personal computers on business desks.
في إدخال الحواسيب الشخصية إلى مكاتب العمل.
to make it be what it was?
لجعله ما أصبح عليه؟
back in 1966, when I was 15 --
عندما كان عمري 15 سنة --
after this photo was taken.
to computers in those days.
إلى الحواسيب تلك الأيام.
and an awful lot of perseverance,
جداً من المثابرة،
computer time around the city.
في أرجاء المدينة.
I went off to MIT to go to college,
التحقت بجامعة (MIT)،
I worked on the Multics Project.
interactive time-sharing system.
لاقتسام الوقت.
and Unix operating systems?
(ليونكس) و(يونيكس)؟
as interpreted computer languages,
in noncomputer fields
غير الحاسوبية
while seated at a computer terminal.
على محطة الحاسوب.
Digital Equipment Corporation.
of computerized typesetting.
بصفّ الحروف المحوسب.
replace their reporters' typewriters
الكاتبة للصحفيين
to places like the Kansas City Star,
مثل (كانساس سيتي ستار)،
and get feedback.
على ردود الأفعال.
than what I saw in the lab at MIT.
داخل المعمل في (MIT).
word processor, again a new field.
مجدداً مجال جديد.
was crafting a user interface
المهم هو صياغة واجهة المستخدم
for noncomputer people to use.
مستخدمي الحاسوب
to work for a small company
cash registers for the fast-food industry.
المعالج لمحلات الوجبات السريعة.
a company with my friend Bob Frankston
مع صديقي (بوب فرانكستون)
as much as I could about business.
ما أستطيع عن الأعمال التجارية.
at Harvard Business School.
هارفارد للأعمال.
percentage of students
in computer programming.
sitting in the front row.
في الصفّ الأمامي.
we learned by the case method.
describing particular business situations.
التي تصف أوضاعاً تجاريةً معينة.
and exhibits often have words and numbers
ما تحتوي على كلمات وأرقام
for the particular situation.
laid out in ways that made sense.
بطريقة ذات معنى.
we got really close to our calculators.
أصبحت علاقتنا وثيقةً جداً بآلاتنا الحاسبة.
dressed up as a calculator.
على شاكلة آلة حاسبة.
the professor would call on somebody
الأستاذ على شخص ما
they would explain what was going on
that the professor would transcribe
التي ينسخها الأستاذ
in the front of the class,
في مقدمة الصفّ،
is when you've done all your homework,
واجبك المنزلي بالكامل،
only to find out that you made an error
أنك ارتكبت خطأً
you did were wrong.
عليها خاطئة.
المشاركة في الفصل.
in the class, I got to daydream a lot.
الفصل، كنت أدخل في أحلام اليقظة بكثرة.
worked on mainframes,
على حواسيب مركزيّة،
payroll systems and bill-paying systems.
المرتبات وأنظمة دفع الفواتير.
on interactive word processing
about paper printouts and punch cards,
والبطاقات المخرومة،
and wrote a new thing in,
شيئاً جديداً مكانه،
would automatically change,
had mouse hardware on the bottom of it
في الجزء السفلي منها
like in a fighter plane.
في الطائرة المقاتلة.
and circle it, and press the sum button.
وإحاطتها ثم الضغط على زر المجموع.
I'd be able to get the answer.
أن أحصل على الإجابة.
and turn it into reality.
تخيلاتي إلى واقع.
the placement on the page
that he was printing.
to get feedback from customers
off to the presses.
العمل إلى المطابع.
version of what you're trying to build
من ما كنت تحاول بناءه
to those problems much less expensively.
بطريقة أقل تكلفة بكثير.
Harvard's time-sharing system
هارفادر لاقتسام الوقت
that I ran into was:
then type in some somewhere else,
غيرها في مكان آخر،
point where you want the answer.
تشير إلى مكان الإجابة.
point to the second,
الناقص، تشير بعدها إلى الثانية،
What should I put in the formula?
ماذا يجب أن أضع في الصيغة؟
the computer knew what to put in.
where on the screen it referred to.
the programmer way of doing it.
سيضطلع بالقيام به.
to type in a unique name.
that was going to be too tedious.
كان على وشك أن يكون مملاً جداً.
make up the name and put it inside.
تلقائياً ويضعه في الداخل.
the order in which you create them?
الذي أدخلته به؟
that if you had more than a few values
لديك أكثر من قيمة
on the screen where things were.
كما يفترض أن يكون.
allowing you to put values anywhere,
القيم في أي مكان،
the row and column in as a name.
across the top and numbers along the side,
في الجزء العلوي والأرقام على الطرف،
where it was on the screen.
in yourself, you'd know what to do.
ستعرف كيف تفعل ذلك.
helped solve my problem.
like the ability to have ranges of cells.
القدرة على الحصول على نطاقات من الخلايا.
any formula, in any cell.
وفي أي خلية كانت.
almost 40 years later.
ولمدة 40 سنة تلت.
going to build this product together.
هذا المنتج معاً.
how the program was supposed to behave.
كيف يفترض بالبرنامج أن يعمل.
to act as documentation.
that the user interface I was defining
المستخدم التي كنت أعمل على تعريفها
and clearly to regular people.
he rented in Arlington, Massachusetts.
في أرلينغتون بمساشوسيتس.
(ملتيكس) التابع ل MIT
on a terminal like this.
to a borrowed Apple II
على حاسوب أبل قام باقتراضه
using an acoustic coupler,
for this case about the Pepsi Challenge.
الحالة المتعلقة بتحدي (بيبسي).
so I had to copy everything down.
على نسخ كل شيء.
so every time it crashed,
ضاع مجهودي،
again, over and over again.
مرة تلو الأخرى.
I got called on, and I presented the case.
ثم عرضت حالتي.
I did all sorts of different scenarios.
في مختلف أنواع السيناريوهات.
VisiCalc was already useful.
about our secret program.
and subtracted that."
why didn't you use a ratio?"
that wouldn't have been as exact!"
لم يكن لذلك أن يحدث بالضبط!"
"Divide isn't working yet."
we did finish enough of VisiCalc
(فيزيكالك) بدرجة كبيرة
announced VisiCalc to the world,
عن (فيزيكالك) للعالم،
Computer Conference in New York City.
العملاق في مدينة نيويورك.
a humorous article about the conference.
فكاهياً حول المؤتمر.
what seem religious rites ...
الشعائر الدينية ...
are adding to the pantheon,
على هيكل الآلهة،
in giant black on yellow.
عملاقة على ورق أصفر.
"All hail VISICALC."
"الكل يحيّي (فيزيكالك)."
of the electronic spreadsheet
الجدول الإلكتروني
for about two years.
بشحن (فيزيكالك).
that looked like this.
running on the Apple II.
more to this story,
to commemorate what happened there.
your unique backgrounds, skills and needs
ومهاراتك واحتياجاتك الفريدة
and work out the key problems,
وتحلّ المشاكل الأساسية،
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Bricklin - Software pioneerDan Bricklin helped fuel the rapid growth of the personal computer industry.
Why you should listen
Dan Bricklin is best known for codeveloping VisiCalc, the pioneering electronic spreadsheet, while he was a student at the Harvard Business School. VisiCalc, codeveloped with his friend Bob Frankston whom he met at MIT, is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry.
Bricklin helps create products that make it easier for business people to build mobile applications in his current role as CTO of Alpha Software Corporation. He is also president of Software Garden, Inc., a small consulting firm and developer of software applications that he founded in 1985. Its most popular products are Note Taker HD for the Apple iPad and before that Dan Bricklin's Demo Program for IBM PCs. In the past, Bricklin was cofounder of pen computer application developer Slate Corporation and founder of website builder developer Trellix Corporation.
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