Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson | |
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Nelson in 2011 | |
| Born | June 17, 1937 |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College (BA) University of Chicago Harvard University (MA) Keio University (PhD) |
| Known for | Hypertext |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Information technology, philosophy, and sociology |
| Institutions | Project Xanadu |
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Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to his 1997 Forbes profile, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."