Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 2: The Internet and the World Wide WebAudio72:57 minutes (66.79 MB)
Speaker:
Mitch Kapor
Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
South Hall
A comparative look at the origins, development, and impact of major information technology platforms of the past three decades from the perspective of a leading entrepreneur and software designer who has played a major role in each of them. Bio:
Mitchell Kapor, 56, is Chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation (www.osafoundation.org), a non-profit organization he founded in 2001 to promote the development and acceptance of high-quality application software developed and distributed using open source methods. He is widely known as founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980's. He has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist. |
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