1937
Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher
Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher
Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher
Ted Nelson
American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist (born 1937)
- Born
- 1937
Theodor Holm Nelson 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'."