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Meet Bob Wallace

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Experience and Impact

Bob Wallace is not a career politician. His experience working with industry leaders like IBM, DuPont and Procter & Gamble has made him an expert on economic development, strategic partnerships, emerging markets and entrepreneurship. He has published several books addressing the challenges faced by small disadvantaged businesses and entrepreneurs.

Bob founded and leads three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies Inc., an IT service provider; Bithenergy Inc., an energy services company; and EntreTeach Learning Systems LLC, which offers web-based training for women and minority business owners.

When he’s not researching, mentoring or presenting to other business leaders, Bob Wallace enjoys spending time with his wife of 40 years and their five children. He frequently takes his family on mission trips to Africa where he has started orphanages and schools. Avid about education, especially STEM programs, he regularly mentors high school and college students. Bob is a passionate community leader and devoted church elder w

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Bob Wallace

Birthdate: 1949/05/29
Death date: 2002/09/20
Associated organizations: Microsoft Corporation
Fields of study: Computing

Biography

Bob Wallace, was a programmer who helped invent shareware software marketing. Wallace attented Brown University in the 1960's, and worked with a group of researchers led by Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson on a pioneering information age tool known as the file retrieval and editing system, or Fress. It was designed on a mainframe IBM 360 computer, and shaped personal computing in the next three decades. The Fress group designed early text editing and word processing systems and conceptualized the idea of "hypertext", which would be later used in the World Wide Web.

Wallace joined the Microsoft Corporation in 1978, its ninth employee. He developed an early version of the Pascal programming language and left the company in 1983 to found Quicksoft, a software company that sold a word processor called PC-Write using a marketing plan that Mr. Wallace initially called commission shareware.

The term shareware had already been coined b

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Bob Wallace (computer scientist)

Bob Wallace (May 29, 1949 – September 20, 2002) was an American software developer, programmer and the ninth Microsoft employee. He was the first popular user of the term shareware,^[1]^[2] creator of the word processing program PC-Write, founder of the software company Quicksoft and an "online drug guru" who devoted much time and money into the research of psychedelic drugs.

Biography

Bob Wallace was born in Arlington, Virginia. He first worked on computers as a member of an Explorer Scout troop sponsored by Control Data Corp.in Bethesda, Maryland. His father was an economist who later became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of John F. Kennedy.^[1]

Beginning in 1967, Wallace attended Brown University, where he worked on the pioneering hypertext File Retrieval and Editing System with Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson.^[3] After attending the University of California, Santa Cruz for two years (where he briefly majored in theatre), he received his undergraduate degree (197