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.