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Software Arts: Art & Companies

Software Arts was a software company founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979 to develop VisiCalc, which was published by a separate company, Personal Software Inc., later named VisiCorp.

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Software Arts topic overview

The analysis highlights Art and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Software Arts.

Related topics
8
Source areas
1
Connected nodes
9
Extracted relationships
6
Related term clusters
10
Bridge connections
9

What this topic covers Research coverage

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Overview · 8 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Founded
1979
Industry
Software
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Newton, Massachusetts
Key people
Co-founders Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston
Products
VisiCalc, TK/Solver, Spotlight
Type
Private

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Software Arts
4Dan Bricklin · Bob Frankston · VisiCalc
4TK Solver · Milos Konopasek · IBM Personal Computer

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How Software Arts connects Entity context

The extracted context around Software Arts shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Software Arts → 1979 Another extracted example is Software Arts → Cambridge, Massachusetts, Newton, Massachusetts. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Software Arts

Top relations

Founded · 1
Software Arts → 1979
Headquarters · 1
Software Arts → Cambridge, Massachusetts, Newton, Massachusetts
Industry · 1
Software Arts → Software
Key people · 1
Software Arts → Co-founders Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston
Products · 1
Software Arts → VisiCalc, TK/Solver, Spotlight
Type · 1
Software Arts → Private

Important terminology

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Important terminology

software arts company visicalc dan bricklin personal founded bob frankston tk solver spotlight lotus 1979 develop published separate inc later

Software Arts relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 6 structured relationships around Software Arts. Examples in this analysis include Software Arts → Founded → 1979 and Software Arts → Headquarters → Cambridge, Massachusetts, Newton, Massachusetts. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Software ArtsFounded19791.00infobox
Software ArtsHeadquartersCambridge, Massachusetts, Newton, Massachusetts1.00infobox
Software ArtsIndustrySoftware1.00infobox
Software ArtsKey peopleCo-founders Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston1.00infobox
Software ArtsProductsVisiCalc, TK/Solver, Spotlight1.00infobox
Software ArtsTypePrivate1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Software Arts bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Software, Bob and Bricklin. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Software Arts
    • Software
    • Bob
    • Bricklin
    • Dan
    • Founded
    • Frankston
    • Personal
    • Solver
    • Spotlight
    • Tk
    • Visicalc
    • Company
  • software arts
    • Software
    • Bob
    • Bricklin
    • Dan
    • Founded
    • Frankston
    • Personal
    • Solver
    • Spotlight
    • Tk
    • Visicalc
    • Company
  • personal software inc.
    • Later
    • Named
    • Published
    • Separate
    • Visicorp
    • Personal
    • Software
    • Solver
    • Spotlight
    • Tk
    • Visicalc
    • Also
  • ibm personal computer
    • Computer
    • Desktop
    • Developed
    • Equation
    • Estimated
    • Ibm
    • Infoworld
    • Konopasek
    • Milos
    • Numeric
    • Organizer
    • Originally
  • dan bricklin
    • Bob
    • Bricklin
    • Dan
    • Founded
    • Frankston
    • Visicalc
    • Software
    • Develop
    • Inc
    • Later
    • Named
    • Published
  • bob frankston
    • Bricklin
    • Dan
    • Founded
    • Frankston
    • Visicalc
    • Software
    • Develop
    • Inc
    • Later
    • Named
    • Published
    • Separate
  • milos konopasek
    • Computer
    • Desktop
    • Estimated
    • Ibm
    • Infoworld
    • Konopasek
    • Milos
    • Numeric
    • Organizer
    • Originally
    • Program
    • Solving
  • tk!solver
    • Spotlight
    • Tk
    • Solving
    • System
    • Visicalc

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the Software Arts map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Software Arts

Nodes10
Edges9
Triples6
Avg. degree1.8
Density0.2
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Software Arts to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Art & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Software Arts · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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