In recent years, the Federal Circuit has issued a number of decisions attempting to define the line between computer-implemented claims that are patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for being ...

Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the developers of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software program, commemorated "National Spreadsheet Day" on Tuesday. The event was hosted by Centage, a provider of ...

Computer spreadsheet programs have been around since 1979, when Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created VisiCalc. The breakthrough program turned the Apple II into an electronic ledger, allowing users ...

That comment comes not from an indicted Enron Corp. executive but from Rich Tanenbaum, founder of New York based Savvysoft, a leading provider of transaction-structuring and modeling systems for the ...

The search for new software concepts often can lead researchers into computer labs or university classrooms. For Ron Reimann, founder of the Baler Software Corp., Rolling Meadows, that journey led ...

Last week I reflected on the greatest computer innovations and settled quickly on spreadsheet software. Being able to set up calculating fields in a document was, to me, utterly revolutionary.