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COMPUTER PEOPLE - D

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Biography

Dan Bricklin
Formal name: Daniel Bricklin
Date of birth: 1951
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Contributions:
  1. Created VisiCalc.
  2. Helped develop the first word processing system.
Company: Interland
Web Page: http://www.bricklin.com/ 
David Bradley
Formal name: David Bradley
Date of birth: Unknown
Contributions:
  1. IBM engineer who helped create the IBM PC and also wrote the code for the now famous three finger salute (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) key sequence that is still in use today.
Company: IBM
David Morse
Formal name: David Morse
Date of birth: Unknown
Contributions:
  1. Co-founded Amiga with David Morse.
Company: Amiga
Related People: Jay Miner
Dijkstra, Edsger Please see Edsger Dijkstra on our Computer People - E page.
Douglas Engelbart
Date of birth: 1925
Portland, Oregon, USA
Contributions:
  1. Invented the computer mouse.
  2. Talked about and demonstrated the concepts of hypertext on NLS in 1968.
  3. Helped with the development of a GUI while at Xerox PARC.
Related people: Alan Kay, Robert Metcalfe
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