About: psalas

Full Name

Pito Salas

Website

http://www.salas.com

Details

Pito Salas is a member of the core team of the TrusttheVote project. He is also a Curacaoan-American Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software developer. While working with the Lotus Advanced Technology Group in 1986, Pito Salas invented a next-generation spreadsheet concept which later became the basis for Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel. The product was released by Lotus in 1989 as Lotus Improv. In their book Pivot Table Data Crunching, authors Bill Jelen and Mike Alexander call Pito Salas the "father of pivot tables" and credits the pivot table concept with allowing an analyst to replace fifteen minutes of complicated data table and database functions with a few seconds of dragging fields into place. He is a principal architect of the BlogBridge Newsreader software.

Posts by psalas:

• 23 Dec 2009 The Voting Information Project is cool

• 15 Dec 2009 Government 2.0: Shouldn’t elections also be on the list?

• 14 Dec 2009 Update on our work on ballot scanning

• 09 Dec 2009 Check out our wiki

• 20 Nov 2009 Another vote for paper

• 11 Nov 2009 Ballot Design and the importance of (simple) usability tests

• 10 Nov 2009 Paper Ballots vs. Photcopying

• 04 Nov 2009 End-to-end election in Tacoma Park

• 02 Nov 2009 Since we are talking about standards…

• 30 Oct 2009 Eh Tu Coding Standards?

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