Bob has been working with computers since 1963. He graduated MIT with 2 degrees in 1970 and continued in graduate school, where he worked on the Multics project. In 1979 he jumped ship from the mainframe world to the PC industry and co-founded Software Arts with Dan Bricklin, where he implemented Dan's concept of VisiCalc. Bob was at Lotus Development from 1986 to 1990 where he created Lotus Express (and started lotus.com). At Microsoft from 1993 to 1998 he championed home networking. He is now pursuing a number of projects and is trying to explain what this internet thing really is. See his web page http://www.frankston.com for more information and some essays.