Ted Nelson

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Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American information technology, philosopher, and socioologist.

In 1963, he coined the phrase hypertext and hypermedia and published them in 1965.

Nelson coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, and intertwingularity (in Literary Machines), as well as teledonics.

Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac or "the Orson Welles of software," a Forbes article from 1997.

Early life and education

Nelson is the son of Emmy Award-winning producer Ralph Nelson and Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm. His parents' marriage was brief, and he was mainly raised by his grandparents, first in Chicago and later in Greenwich Village.

Nelson obtained a B.A. In 1959, Swarthmore College earned a degree in philosophy. While there, he made The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow, an experimental student film in which the titular hero discovers the meaning of life. Peter Schickele, a student at the University of Chicago, produced the film. Nelson began graduate work in sociology at the University of Chicago, followed by a sociology department at Harvard University specializing in sociology, earning an A.M. in sociology in 1962. Nelson worked at John C. Lilly's Communication Research Institute in Miami, Florida, where he briefly shared an office with Gregory Bateson after Harvard. He served as an sociology instructor at Vassar College from 1964 to 1966.

He began to imagine a computer-based writing system that would be a permanent repository for the world's knowledge and also allow greater freedom in drawing connections between ideas during college and graduate school. Project Xanadu came to be.

He obtained his PhD in media and governance from Keio University in 2002, much later in life.

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