Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson | |
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 Nelson in 2011 | |
| Born | June 17, 1937 |
| Education | Swarthmore College (BA) University of Chicago Harvard University (MA) Keio University (PhD) |
| Known for | Hypertext |
| Parent(s) | Ralph Nelson, Celeste Holm |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Information technology, philosophy, and sociology |
| Workplaces | Project Xanadu |
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Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher of computer science, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to his profile published in Forbes in 1997, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."