Theodor Holm Nelson, 1937-

Formal Education
• B.A., Swarthmore, Philosophy, 1959. 
• M.A. Harvard, Sociology, 1963. 
• Ph.D. Keio University, Media and Governance, 2002.  (Thesis: "Philosophy of Hypertext.").

Books 
• Life, Love, College, etc., 1959.  Collected columns from the Swarthmore Phoenix. 
• Computer Lib/Dream Machines, 1974.  Updated Microsoft edition, 1987. 
• The Home Computer Revolution, 1977.  Translated also into Japanese and Swedish. 
• Literary Machines, 1981.  Major revision, 1987.  Translated also into Japanese and Italian. 
• The Future of Information, 1997.  Published in Japan in one special edition.

Patents 
• United States Patent 6,058,381(May 2, 2000).  "Many-to-many payments system for network content." 
• United States Patent 6,262,736 (July 17, 2001).  "Interactive connection, viewing, and maneuvering system for complex data."  This is a software patent for zzstructure (see Designs, below), a discrete multidimensional generalization of lists and tables.

Principal Software Designs 
• Xanadu literary structure and software architecture (described in Literary Machines).  Often confused with the much-simpler World Wide Web, Xanadu is an ongoing family of software and document designs architected for side-by-side intercomparison, unrestricted re-use of content, and profuse overlapping links.  I still believe it will have an important place in the electronic document world. 
• Transpointing Windows, a sweeping alternative to today's interface designs, which actually preceded them (published in my 1972 article, "As We Will Think"), and given the present generic name in my 1995 ACM article "The Heart of Connection: Hypermedia Unified by Transclusion", 1995).  A functioning demonstration of transpointing windows is downloadable at xanadu.com/cosmicbook.
• ZZstructure, a discrete software kernel structure built around multidimensional lists, offering unique forms of content connection and visualization.  ZZstructure projects are known to be underway in Australia, Japan, Finland, England and of course the USA, where it is trademarked as "ZigZag" and patented (see U.S. patent above).  An excellent early review of ZigZag by Michael Swaine is to be found in the December 1998 issue of Dr.Dobbs Journal.

Honors 
• 1968: Auburn Lecturer, Union Theological  Seminary (shared with Kenneth Boulding). 
• 1998: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Web Award, WWW7, Brisbane, Australia.  
• 2001: Knighted by France as "Officier des Arts et Lettres."  

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