Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson
Nelson in 2011
Born (1937-06-17) June 17, 1937 (age 86)
Alma materSwarthmore College
University of Chicago
Harvard University
Keio University
Known forHypertext
Scientific career
FieldsInformation technology, philosophy, and sociology
InstitutionsProject Xanadu

Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963[1] and published them in 1965.[2] According to a 1997 Forbes profile, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."[3]

  1. ^ Nelson, Theodor Holm (August 1965). "Complex information processing". Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference. ACM. pp. 84–100. doi:10.1145/800197.806036. ISBN 9781450374958. S2CID 2556127.
  2. ^ Rettberg, Jill Walker. "Complex Information Processing: A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate". Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  3. ^ "Ted Nelson - Forbes.com". www.forbes.com. Archived from the original on August 20, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2018.

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