IT House News on September 9. According to a report by the Washington Post on September 8, local time, Dennis Austin, one of the inventors of PowerPoint, died in Los Angeles, California, on September 1 this year. Died at his home in Los Altos at the age of 76.
His son Michael Austin said that the cause of Dennis Austin's death was lung cancer that had metastasized to the brain.
IT Home Note: The inspiration for PowerPoint can be traced back to 1984, when Robert Gaskins, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, first proposed the idea.
Subsequently, he joined Forethought, a Silicon Valley software company, and hired two developers, Dennis Austin and Tom Rudkin, to turn this idea into reality and developed the predecessor of PowerPoint " Presenter". The software, which offered the ability to merge graphics, clipart and insert multiple fonts, was later renamed "PowerPoint"as proposed by Robert.
PowerPoint 1.0 was released for the Apple Macintosh computer in 1987, initially only in black and white, with a full-color version available a year later. At the end of 1987, Microsoft acquired Forethought and PowerPoint for $14 million. 1990 The first Windows version of PowerPoint is released. To date, users around the world create more than 30 million presentations every day using PowerPoint.
According to Robert's 2012 book Sweating Bullets: Notes on the Invention of PowerPoint, "Dennis came up with at least half of the major design ideas, and the software's smooth performance and simple interface are all based on him .”
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