Ed makes a good argument for spelling reform, but he demonstrates an outstanding flair for presentation, even at the age of 102.
UC Berkeley Proud Of PowerPoint
Bob Gaskins, a former Berkeley Ph.D. student, conceived PowerPoint originally as an easy-to-use presentation program. He hired a software developer, Dennis Austin, in 1984 to build a prototype program that they called “Presenter,” later changing the name to PowerPoint for trademark reasons. PowerPoint 1.0 was released in 1987 for the Apple Macintosh platform; later that […] » about 200 words