Mitch Kapor: Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 1: The Personal Computer October 3, 2007

UC Berkeley School of Information's Distinguished Lecture Series

Mitch Kapor
Chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation and Founder of Lotus Development Corporation
“Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved”
Part 1: The Personal Computer

ABSTRACT
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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