Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson. Biography[edit] Nelson is the son of Emmy Award-winning director Ralph Nelson and the Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm.[1] His parents' marriage was brief and he was mostly raised by his grandparents, first in Chicago and later in Greenwich Village.[2] Nelson earned a BA from Swarthmore College in 1959.

While there, he made an experimental humorous student film titled The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow in which the titular hero discovers the meaning of life. His contemporary at the college, Peter Schickele scored the film.[3] In 1960 Nelson began graduate work at Harvard University in philosophy, earning a master's degree in sociology in 1963. Much later in life, in 2002, he obtained a Doctorate in Media and Governance from Keio University. Ted Nelson Home Page. Ted Nelson Xanadu Home Page. 01.07.26 ( d101z SOMEONE has to have a different point of view.

Home Page of Ted Nelson, Project Professor, Keio Shonan Fujisawa Campus, Japan. e-mail: ted@xanadu.net. Project Xanadu® WAY OUT OF THE BOX. Ted Nelson. Ted Nelson is a somewhat controversial figure in the computing world.

For thirty-something years he has been having grand ideas but has never seen them through to completed projects. His biggest project, Xanadu, was to be a world-wide electronic publishing system that would have created a sort universal libary for the people.He is known for coining the term "hypertext. " He is also seen as something of a radical figure, opposing authority and tradition.