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

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.