He and his friend and collaborator, Bob Frankston, created the electronic spreadsheet program called VisiCalc, which jump-started the personal-computer revolution.
He destroyed one of his hard drives, and left behind an electronic spreadsheet on mass murder, and photographs of himself with a gun to his head.
The idea is to use software to make e-commerce easy and affordable for these companies in the Internet era, much as the electronic spreadsheet gave them a tool for financial tracking and modeling in the personal computer era.
There have been partial steps toward the democratization of programming, from Visicalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, to the hypertext markup language, or HTML, the simplified English-laden computer language used to make Web pages.
"The Internet is the big thing it was supposed to be, but not in the way we thought it would," said Dan Bricklin, a co-inventor of the electronic spreadsheet, which helped power the personal computer revolution.
The developer, Ray Ozzie, became something of a legend in software circles as an early employee of Software Arts, publisher of the pioneering electronic spreadsheet VisiCalc, and for his later work at Lotus Development, where he oversaw the creation of the Notes program, which has 60 million users and was a key reason for I.B.M.'s acquisition of Lotus.
Electronic spreadsheets all but replaced pen-and-ink versions by the end of the 20th century.
Data was tabulated in electronic spreadsheets.
The IESRM, in turn, was composed basically by a document (the guide), a set of electronic spreadsheets, and an application built using Matlab2.
Burn cases were identified as follows: operational information about the location, type and timing of each emergency call (hereinafter the 'call' was scrutinised from routinely captured electronic spreadsheets.
Electronic spreadsheets are provided for their implementation.
