Editing Bob Frankston (section)

== Awards and recognition ==

*[[List of Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery|Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery]] (1994) "for the invention of VisiCalc, a new metaphor for data manipulation that galvanized the personal computing industry"
* MIT William L. Stewart Award for co-founding the M.I.T. [[Student Information Processing Board]] (SIPB).
* The Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award (1985)
* The [[MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|MIT LCS]] Industrial Achievement Award
* The Washington Award (2001) from the [[Western Society of Engineers]] (with Bricklin)
* In 2004, he was made a Fellow of the [[Computer History Museum]] "for advancing the utility of personal computers by developing the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet."<ref>{{cite web|title=Bob Frankston|url=http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Bob,Frankston/|publisher=Computer History Museum|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509235833/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Bob,Frankston/|archive-date=2013-05-09|access-date=2013-05-23}}</ref>