Alan Cooper

Name: Alan Cooper

Born: June 3, 1952, in San Francisco, California, USA

Computer-related contributions

• Widely recognized as the "Father of Visual Basic."
• Wrote "General Ledger" one of the first business software written for microcomputers and then on to authoring Visual Basic.
• Wrote business programming language CBASIC, an early competitor to Microsoft BASIC.

Significant publications

• The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy.
• How to Restore the Sanity, About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, VBX.