A bit of personal PR (at least I labeled it so you can skip it)
Hey, I just came across this:
"The Invention of the Pivot Table: The concept that led to today's pivot table came from the halls of the Lotus Development Corporation with a revolutionary spreadsheet program called Lotus Improv. Improv was envisioned in 1986 by Pito Salas of the Advanced Technology Group at Lotus.Yes, that's pretty accurate, and it's in an actual book! Neat.
Realizing that spreadsheets often have patterns of data, Pito concluded that if one could build a tool that could recognize these patterns, then one could build enhanced data models. Lotus ran with the concept and started developing the next-generation spreadsheet." (from Pivot Table Crunching)
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Comments
It's true: you can't spell P I V O T without P I T O.
Posted by: Paul Kleppner | August 8, 2005 05:00 PM
Thanks Pito for giving us all a job!!
-Michael Alexander
co-author Pivot Table Data Crunching
Posted by: Michael Alexander | August 23, 2005 12:02 PM