Dennis Austin

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Dennis Austin was a software engineer best known as the co-creator and principal developer of Microsoft PowerPoint, originally developed at Forethought Inc.

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instanceOf computer programmer
software engineer
causeOfDeath lung cancer
coCreatorOf PowerPoint NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
surface form: United States
dateOfBirth 1947
dateOfDeath 2023-09-01
designed user interface of early PowerPoint
developed PowerPoint 1.0 NERFINISHED
educatedAt Princeton University
University of California, Santa Barbara NERFINISHED
employer Forethought Inc. NERFINISHED
Microsoft NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork computer software
presentation software
genre presentation graphics software
hasChild one daughter
one son
knownFor being principal developer of PowerPoint
co-creating PowerPoint
notableAchievement helped create one of the most widely used presentation programs in the world
notableWork Microsoft PowerPoint NERFINISHED
occupation computer software designer
software engineer
placeOfBirth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
surface form: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
placeOfDeath Los Altos, California, United States NERFINISHED
retiredFrom Microsoft NERFINISHED
role principal software architect of early PowerPoint versions
spouse Wanda NERFINISHED
workedAt Forethought Inc. in Sunnyvale, California NERFINISHED
Microsoft’s Graphics Business Unit NERFINISHED
workedOn Macintosh version of PowerPoint NERFINISHED
Windows version of PowerPoint
workedWith Robert Gaskins NERFINISHED

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Forethought Inc. foundedBy Dennis Austin