Philippe Kahn Inventor, Entrepreneur , and Innovator Barry Hartung Tech Biography EDUC 635
Philippe Kahn
Inventor, Entrepreneur, and Innovator
Barry Hartung
Tech Biography
EDUC 635
Early Life and Education
• Born March 16th 1952 and immigrated to Paris, France as a child.
• Mother was an Auschwitz survivor and Father was a mechanical engineer.
• Studied math and music in college in Switzerland and France.
• As a student, he developed software for the MICRAL, the earliest non-kit PC based on a microprocessor.
Career Path
• 1982-1994: Founder and CEO of Borland. Developed Turbo Pascal, dBase, and Sidekick for DOS.
• 1994-1998: Cofounder and CEO of Starfish Software. Developed core IP for device synchronization, particularly for the wireless industry.
• 1998-2004: Cofounder and CEO of Lightsurf Technologies. Developed first complete camera phone and the software infrastructure for electronic photography.
• 2004-Present: Cofounder and CEO of Fullpower Technologies. Developed Motion-X technology.
Story of the Camera Phone
• The Camera Phone - How We Invented the World
Impact of the Camera Phone
Arab Spring
• versus
Tiananmen Square
The Camera Phone in the Classroom
• Allows instant access to and recording of data.• Allows immediate and global distribution of data.• Portable and easy to use.• Allows quick and easy
documentation of data.
Further Information
Classroom Usage & Ideas:http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ucfcasio/qvuses.htm
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~toh/image/DigitalCameraUses.htm
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/100-ways-use-digital-cameras
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/four-smart-ways-to-use-cell-phones-in-class
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Background of the Camera Phone:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2rCB1K_Fhw
References
Kellner, T. (2001, July 9). Survivor. Forbes, 128. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0709/128.html
Parks, B. (2000, October). The Big Picture. Wired, 8.10. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/kahn.html
JewAge. (2011). Philippe Kahn - Biography. JewAge.org. Retrieved from http://jewage.org/wiki/ru/Profile:P1219490538&article=Article%3APhilippe%20Kahn%20-%20Biography
Fullpower Technologies, Inc. (2013). Philippe Kahn. Fullpower.com. Retrieved from http://www.fullpower.com/pk/
Kahn, P. & Pargue, C.N. (1994). Forward. In dBase 5.0 for Windows Handbook (pp. 1-2). New York, NY: Random House Information Group.