William Appleton (entrepreneur)
| William Appleton | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 23, 1961 |
| Occupation | Software entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Known for |
Cyberflix Titanic: Adventure Out of Time |
William "Bill" Appleton (born May 23, 1961) is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the programmer of the first rich media authoring tool World Builder, the multimedia programming language SuperCard, a best-selling CD-ROM Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, and DreamFactory, a cloud service platform.
Originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Appleton graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1979 before moving on to Davidson College, where he studied philosophy, painting and economics. In 1984 Appleton passed up an economics graduate fellowship at Vanderbilt University and moved into his parents’ basement, where he developed programs for his Macintosh computer.
Appleton has designed and written more than 30 professional software publications throughout his career, including World Builder, the first-ever rich media authoring tool. Appleton also created the multimedia programming language SuperCard and developed Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, a national best-selling CD-ROM game that sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. He currently is the founder and chief technology officer of DreamFactory Software and is developing a cloud service platform in the enterprise space.
In 1989, Appleton won the Silicon Beach Software Technical Innovation Award, presented for his work in hypermedia development environments. Appleton owns two patents. The first, issued in 1997, covers a method for the production of digital movies. The second, issued in 1998, describes a computer display system for the real-time display of digital movie frames.
Appleton’s software applications include the following:
Silicon Beach Software
TeleRobotics Inc.
Symmetry Corp
Reactor
Cyberflix
Disney Interactive
Bandai Digital Media
ActiveX Control
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