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Mitch Kapor

Born November 1, 1950 (1950-11-01) (age 57)
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known for Lotus 1-2-3

Mitchell David Kapor (born November 1, 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. Events 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk Bishop of Freising which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Lotus 1-2-3 is a Spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of IBM) Events 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk Bishop of Freising which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is a Software company with headquarters in Westford, Lotus 1-2-3 is a Spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of IBM) A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) in the jargon of computer programmers and video gamers has been used to refer to any Computer program He is known as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist.

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Biography

Early Life and Education

Kapor was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended public schools on Long Island in Freeport, New York[1], where he graduated from high school in 1967. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Freeport is a village in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, USA, on the South Shore of Long Island He received a BA from Yale College in 1971 and studied psychology, linguistics and computer science as part of an interdisciplinary major in Cybernetics. Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887 Psychology (from Greek grc ψῡχή psȳkhē, "breath life soul" and grc -λογία -logia) is an Academic and Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the Structure of Complex systems especially Communication processes control mechanisms and Feedback Kapor served as Music Director and Program Director at Yale's radio station WYBC-FM

During the 1970s, Kapor was employed as a radio disc jockey at WHCN-FM, a commercial progressive rock station based in Hartford, Connecticut. WYBC-FM (943 FM) is an Urban Adult Contemporary music formatted Radio station in New Haven Connecticut, on the campus of Yale University Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Progressive rock (often shortened to " progressive " " prog " or " prog rock " is a form of Rock music that evolved Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It was also in this period that he became interested in Transcendental Meditation, going on to teach the philosophy in Cambridge, Massachusetts (where he also worked as a low-level computer programmer) and Fairfield, Iowa. Transcendental Meditation or TM is the trademarked name of a Meditation technique introduced in 1958 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917-2008 Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. A programmer is someone who writes Computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist Fairfield is a city in Jefferson County, Iowa, United States. In 1978, he graduated with a Master's degree in counseling psychology from Campus-Free College (later renamed Beacon College) in Boston. Psychology (from Greek grc ψῡχή psȳkhē, "breath life soul" and grc -λογία -logia) is an Academic and Kapor subsequently began a career as a mental health counselor at New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts[2]. Mental health is a term used to describe either a level of cognitive or Emotional wellbeing or an absence of a Mental disorder. Stoneham is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

In 1980, Kapor left his counseling career to attend the Master's of Science in Management program at the MIT Sloan School of Management, but did not graduate.

Lotus

Kapor founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation, and created Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is a Software company with headquarters in Westford, ---- Jonathan Sachs (born in 1947 was the programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation with Mitch Kapor in 1982 and created the first version of the Kapor served as the President (later Chairman) and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus from 1982 to 1986 and as a Director until 1987. In 1983, Lotus' first year of operations, the company achieved revenues of $53,000,000 and had a successful public offering. In 1984 the company tripled in revenue to $156,000,000. The number of employees grew to over a thousand by 1985.

Lotus' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System. Mitch founded Lotus after working as head of development at VisiCorp (the marketers of VisiCalc) and selling the rights to his products; VisiPlot and VisiTrend to VisiCorp. VisiCorp was an early personal computer software publisher Its most famous products are VisiOn and VisiCalc.

Shortly after Kapor left VisiCorp, he and Sachs produced an integrated spreadsheet and graphing program. Even though IBM and VisiCorp collaborated on VisiCalc for the PC and VisiCalc shipped simultaneously with the PC, Lotus had a superior product. VisiCalc was the first Spreadsheet program available for personal computers Lotus released Lotus 1-2-3 in January 1983. Lotus 1-2-3 is a Spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of IBM) Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) The name referred to the three ways the product could be used, as a spreadsheet, graphics package, and database manager. A database management system ( DBMS) is Computer software designed for the purpose of managing Databases DBMSes may use any of a variety of Data models In fact the latter two functions were less often used, and 1-2-3 was the most powerful spreadsheet available. Sales were huge, turning Lotus into the largest independent software vendor in the world almost overnight. The business plan had called for $1 million in sales in the first year, and the actual results were $54 million.

Kapor was also the fundamental architect of the "free-form" database application, Lotus Agenda. Agenda is a DOS -based Personal information manager, designed by Mitch Kapor, Ed Belove and Jerry Kaplan, and marketed by Lotus

In October 1984 Jim Manzi was named President, and in April 1986 he was named as CEO, succeeding Mitch Kapor who had become inactive in the company. Jim Manzi (born 1951 is the former Chairman President and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation and is currently a private investor in various technology start-up ventures Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator

Electronic Frontier Foundation

In 1990, with fellow digital rights activists John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as its chairman until 1994. John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American Poet, Essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher political John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list and Cygnus Solutions. The Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF) is an international non-profit advocacy and legal organization based in the United States with the stated purpose of being dedicated The EFF is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media.

Mozilla Foundation

Kapor has been the Chair of the Mozilla Foundation since its inception in 2003. The Mozilla Foundation is a Non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the Open source Mozilla project He founded the Mitchell Kapor Foundation to support his philanthropic interests in environmental health. He also co-founded, and is on the board of, the Level Playing Field Institute, a 501c(3) dedicated to fairness in education and workplaces. The Level Playing Field Institute, also known as LPFI is a non-profit organization which promotes innovative approaches to Fairness in higher education and workplaces 501(c is a provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code ( listing 28 types of Non-profit organizations exempt from some federal Kapor is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, a San Francisco-based company which created the popular virtual world Second Life, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Wikimedia Foundation. Linden Lab is a privately held American Internet company that is best known as the creator of Second Life and the Virtual world platform Second Life Grid The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Second Life ( abbreviated as SL) and its sister site Teen Second Life are Internet-based 3D Virtual The Wikimedia Foundation Inc is a Non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, [3]

Other Startups

In 1990 Kapor's new company On Technology introduced their new product On Location, an application designed for the Macintosh that contained an indexing system that permit quick retrieval and display of text on the Mac's hard disk. [4] "We think we're being cagey by bringing it out on the Mac first," Kapor said. [4] "It's a richer medium than MS-DOS, and if we have a hot product in the Mac market, it will be easier to get into the PC market. "[4]

In 2001, Kapor founded the Open Source Applications Foundation, where he is now working on Chandler, a modern personal information manager built using open source tools and methods. Chandler is a Personal information management software suite described by its developers as a "Note-to-Self Organizer" designed for personal and small-group

In 2006, Kapor founded his latest startup, Foxmarks, based in San Francisco.

Personal Life

He is married to Freada Kapor Klein and resides in San Francisco. Freada Kapor Klein, PhD (born 1952 is a pioneer in the field of Organizational development and Human resources and diversity consulting The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city

Kapor is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information at University of California, Berkeley. The UC Berkeley School of Information or iSchool is a graduate school offering both a professional master's degree as well as a research-oriented PhD The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley

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See also

References

  1. ^ Mitchell Kapor's Biography [1]
  2. ^ Mitchell Kapor's Biography [2]
  3. ^ Advisory Board. The term massively distributed collaboration was coined by Mitchell Kapor, in a presentation at UC Berkeley on 2005-11-09, to describe an emerging Wikimedia Foundation (January 22, 2007). The Wikimedia Foundation Inc is a Non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Retrieved on 2007-01-28. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted
  4. ^ a b c New York Times. " New Retrieval Software By On Technology Inc." by John Markoff. January 22, 1990.

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