Ted Nelson
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American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-06-17 ) June 17, 1937 (age 88) , Chicago , Illinois , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Swarthmore College ( BA ), University of Chicago , Harvard University ( MA ), Keio University ( PhD )
- Known for
- Hypertext
- Parent s
- Ralph Nelson , Celeste Holm
- Fields
- Information technology, philosophy, and sociology
- Institutions
- Project Xanadu
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Holm
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Father
- Ralph Nelson
- Mother
- Celeste Holm
- Occupation
- professor
- Educated at
- Keio University
- Employer
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Sciences
- Field of work
- musician
- Official website
- ted.hyperland.com
- Image
- Ted Nelson cropped.jpg
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- influenced by
- Vannevar Bush
- date of birth
- 1937-06-17
- Commons category
- Ted Nelson
- topic's main category
- Category:Ted Nelson
- name in native language
- Theodor Holm Nelson
- curriculum vitae URL
- hyperland.com/TNvita
- social media followers
- 10000
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Encyclopedic overview
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'."
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ted Nelson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.