| Found in | NUCMC data from Computer Hist. Museum for His PowerPoint records, 1984-2007 (First released in 1987, PowerPoint is the world standard in presentation software. It has been included with Microsoft Office since the software suite's first release in 1990. Austin designed and developed PowerPoint while working at Forethought, Inc., in Mountain View and Sunnyvale, Calif. He worked closely with Robert Gaskins, who conceived the program, and Tom Rudkin, who helped develop it. Born May 28, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Penn., Austin studied electrical engineering at University of Virginia then attended graduate school at Arizona State University, MIT, and UC Santa Barbara. He worked as a software architect for Burroughs Corporation and Gavilan Computers before joining Forethought in 1984. He worked for Microsoft from 1987 to 1996)
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