Dan Bricklin: Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet
Dan Bricklin: Faceţi cunoştinţă cu inventatorul foii de calcul electronice
Dan Bricklin helped fuel the rapid growth of the personal computer industry. Full bio
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an electronic spreadsheet,
un program de calcul tabelar
with a spreadsheet by hand,
unei afaceri manual,
printing business in Philadelphia?
mica lui tipografie din Philadelphia?
for hundreds of years.
timp de sute de ani.
I started working on an idea
am început să lucrez la o idee
called an Apple II personal computer.
computer personal Apple II.
had really changed when, six years later,
un editorial
and maybe even were using it.
ce e VisiCalc şi poate-l şi folosesc.
propelled the industry forward."
au propulsat industria".
more than any other single event."
mai mult decât orice altceva."
ar fi fost făcut pentru un alt calculator,
for some other computer,
somebody else right now."
personal computers on business desks.
computerele în birourile afaceriştilor.
to make it be what it was?
back in 1966, when I was 15 --
în 1966, când aveam 15 ani,
after this photo was taken.
această fotografie.
to computers in those days.
în acele zile.
and an awful lot of perseverance,
computer time around the city.
I went off to MIT to go to college,
am plecat la MIT ca să intru la facultate,
I worked on the Multics Project.
ca să câştig bani.
interactive time-sharing system.
de partajare a timpului.
and Unix operating systems?
Unix şi Linux?
as interpreted computer languages,
limbaje de interpretare,
in noncomputer fields
din domenii non-IT
while seated at a computer terminal.
de la terminalul unui calculator.
Digital Equipment Corporation.
pentru Digital Equipment Corporation.
of computerized typesetting.
de typesetting computerizat.
replace their reporters' typewriters
maşinile de scris ale reporterilor
to places like the Kansas City Star,
în locuri precum Kansas City Star,
and get feedback.
şi primeam feedback.
than what I saw in the lab at MIT.
de cea văzută în laborator la MIT.
de proiect software
word processor, again a new field.
tot un domeniu nou.
was crafting a user interface
să construieşti o interfaţă de utilizator
for noncomputer people to use.
pentru oamenii din domenii non-IT.
to work for a small company
pentru o companie mică,
cash registers for the fast-food industry.
electronice bazate pe microprocesoare
a company with my friend Bob Frankston
cu prietenul meu Bob Frankston,
în proiectul Multics la MIT.
as much as I could about business.
ca să-nvăţ cât pot de mult despre afaceri.
at Harvard Business School.
la Harvard Business School.
percentage of students
de studenţi
in computer programming.
sitting in the front row.
stăteam în faţă.
we learned by the case method.
describing particular business situations.
ce descriau situaţii specifice de afaceri.
and exhibits often have words and numbers
for the particular situation.
în acele cazuri specifice.
laid out in ways that made sense.
aranjate în moduri care au sens.
we got really close to our calculators.
cu calculatoarele.
dressed up as a calculator.
the professor would call on somebody
profesorul chema pe cineva
they would explain what was going on
that the professor would transcribe
pe care profesorul
in the front of the class,
din faţa clasei,
is when you've done all your homework,
era când îţi făceai tema
only to find out that you made an error
doar ca să constaţi că ai făcut o eroare
you did were wrong.
în funcţie de participarea la ore.
in the class, I got to daydream a lot.
în clasă, am ajuns să visez la multe.
worked on mainframes,
lucrau atunci pe mainframes
payroll systems and bill-paying systems.
de plată a salariilor şi a facturilor.
on interactive word processing
interactivă
about paper printouts and punch cards,
şi cartele perforate,
and wrote a new thing in,
şi ai scrie altul în loc,
would automatically change,
s-ar schimba automat,
had mouse hardware on the bottom of it
cu hardware sub el şi display deasupra,
like in a fighter plane.
and circle it, and press the sum button.
le puteam selecta şi apăsa butonul „sumă".
I'd be able to get the answer.
aş fi fost capabil să fac asta.
and turn it into reality.
şi să-l fac să devină realitate.
the placement on the page
cum va fi aşezarea în pagină
that he was printing.
to get feedback from customers
de la clienţi
off to the presses.
mai departe către prese.
version of what you're trying to build
pentru ceea ce încerci să construieşti
to those problems much less expensively.
soluţii la acele probleme.
să construiesc un prototip.
Harvard's time-sharing system
conectat la sistemul comun Harvard
that I ran into was:
de care m-am lovit a fost:
then type in some somewhere else,
apoi scrii câteva în altă parte,
point where you want the answer.
indici unde vrei răspunsul,
point to the second,
indici pe al doilea,
What should I put in the formula?
the computer knew what to put in.
ce calculatorul să poată recunoaşte.
where on the screen it referred to.
la ce punct de pe ecran se referă.
the programmer way of doing it.
cum procedează programatorii.
to type in a unique name.
that was going to be too tedious.
că ar fi prea complicat.
make up the name and put it inside.
numele şi să-l pună în formulă.
the order in which you create them?
ordinea în care sunt create.
that if you had more than a few values
că dacă ai avea mai multe valori,
on the screen where things were.
unde se află fiecare pe ecran.
allowing you to put values anywhere,
în loc să-ţi permit să pui valori oriunde,
the row and column in as a name.
rândul şi coloana ca pe un nume.
across the top and numbers along the side,
şi aş pune ABC sus şi numere pe o parte,
where it was on the screen.
in yourself, you'd know what to do.
ai şti ce trebuie să faci.
helped solve my problem.
m-a ajutat să-mi rezolv problema.
like the ability to have ranges of cells.
precum aceea de a avea şiruri de celule.
any formula, in any cell.
orice formulă în orice celulă.
almost 40 years later.
40 de ani mai târziu.
going to build this product together.
să construim acest produs împreună.
how the program was supposed to behave.
cum trebuie să se comporte programul.
to act as documentation.
that the user interface I was defining
că interfaţa pe care o defineam
and clearly to regular people.
oamenilor obişnuiţi.
he rented in Arlington, Massachusetts.
îl închiriase în Arlington, Masachussets.
on a terminal like this.
pe un terminal ca acesta.
to a borrowed Apple II
pe un Apple II împrumutat
using an acoustic coupler,
folosind un convertor acustic,
for this case about the Pepsi Challenge.
pentru cazul Pepsi Challenge.
so I had to copy everything down.
așa că a trebuit să copiez totul.
so every time it crashed,
atunci când programul se bloca,
again, over and over again.
toate formulele, iar şi iar.
şi am prezentat cazul în clasă.
I got called on, and I presented the case.
I did all sorts of different scenarios.
Am făcut tot felul de scenarii.
VisiCalc was already useful.
VisiCalc era deja util.
about our secret program.
de programul nostru secret.
„Am luat asta, am adăugat asta
and subtracted that."
why didn't you use a ratio?"
„De ce n-ai folosit o fracţie?"
that wouldn't have been as exact!"
„A! O fracţie - n-ar fi dat aşa de exact!"
"Divide isn't working yet."
„Împărţirea nu merge încă!"
we did finish enough of VisiCalc
am terminat destul din VisiCalc
de fişă de referinţă
ca material de marketing.
announced VisiCalc to the world,
a prezentat lumii VisiCalc,
Computer Conference in New York City.
Conference din New York.
a humorous article about the conference.
a prezentat ironic conferinţa.
ceea ce par a fi ritualuri religioase...
what seem religious rites ...
are adding to the pantheon,
adaugă la Panteon,
in giant black on yellow.
cu litere negre uriaşe pe fond galben.
"All hail VISICALC."
„Uraţi-i bun venit lui VisiCalc!"
of the electronic spreadsheet
a foii de calcul electronice
for about two years.
pentru aproximativ doi ani.
încă nu înţeleseseră.
that looked like this.
running on the Apple II.
despre această poveste,
more to this story,
to commemorate what happened there.
your unique backgrounds, skills and needs
experienţa unică, abilităţile şi nevoile
and work out the key problems,
şi să rezolvați probleme cheie,
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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