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Robert Carr

Co-founder and Vice President, Software
GO Corporation · 1987-1993
Chief Scientist
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Person Details

Roles
Co-founder and Vice President, Software GO Corporation · 1987-1993
Chief Scientist Ashton-Tate Corporation · 1985-1987

Artifacts

31 artifacts in the collection

GO Corporation 1993
GO Corporation - Catalog of Products and Services (Letter)

GO Corporation – Catalog of Products and Services (Letter)

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation – Getting Started with PenPoint (Version 1.0)

GO Corporation 1992
GO Corporation - GO Fax Brochure (Front Cover)

GO Corporation – GO Fax Brochure

GO Corporation 1991

GO Corporation – Installing PenPoint Demo Release, Beta Phase 2

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1992
GO Corporation - PenPoint Architectural Reference - Volume I (Cover)

GO Corporation – PenPoint Architectural Reference – Volume I

GO Corporation 1991

GO Corporation – PenPoint Introduction Program of Events (Handout)

GO Corporation 1993

GO Corporation – Regis McKenna Clipping Alert (March 22, 1993)

GO Corporation 1991

GO Corporation – The PenPoint Technical Papers

GO Corporation 1992
GO Corporation - Using PenPoint (Cover)

GO Corporation – Using PenPoint

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1992
GO Corporation - PenPoint Application Writing Guide (Cover)

GO Corporation – PenPoint Application Writing Guide

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1992
GO Corporation - PenPoint Architectural Reference Volume II (Cover)

GO Corporation – PenPoint Architectural Reference – Volume II

GO Corporation 1992
GO Corporation - PenPoint Development Tools (Cover)

GO Corporation – PenPoint Development Tools

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1992
GO Corporation - PenPoint User Interface Design Reference (Cover)

GO Corporation – PenPoint User Interface Design Reference

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation 1993 Catalog of Product and Services Participation Request Form

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation Certified Developer Letter

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation Correspondence – PenPoint SDK 1.0a (May 29, 1992)

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation Correspondence – Quick Start Program (April 2, 1992)

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation PenPoint Developer Programs – SDK 1.0 Beta Phase 2 (Open Me First) Package

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation PenPoint Quick Reference

GO Corporation 1993

GO Corporation PenPointers April 1993 (Newsletter)

GO Corporation 1993

GO Corporation PenPointers August 1993 (Newsletter)

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation PenPointers December 1992 (Newsletter)

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation PenPointers January 1992 (Newsletter)

GO Corporation 1993

GO Corporation PenPointers June 1993 (Newsletter)

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation PenPointers June/July 1992 (Newsletter)

GO Corporation 1993

GO Corporation PenPointers May 1993 (Newsletter)

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation PenPointers November 1992 (Newsletter)

GO Corporation 1992

GO Corporation PenPointers October 1992 (Newsletter)

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1992
PenPoint Programming (Cover)

PenPoint Programming (Book)

GO Corporation 1994
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure - Jerry Kaplan (Cover)

Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure Story (Book)

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1991
The Power of PenPoint (Cover)

The Power of PenPoint (Book)

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Timeline

Journal

  • A Conversation with aha's Greg Stikeleather Journal article … r sold to the one-time database powerhouse Ashton-Tate. It was here that Stikeleather met Robert Carr, who would later become the co-founder of GO Corp. and chief architect of PenPoint. This …
  • A Conversation with ParaGraph's Stepan Pachikov Journal article … d on to the leading mobile computing companies of the day: "Finally, we met Jerry Kaplan, Robert Carr, and other people from GO and gave them a demo. We met people from Intel, and a lot of co …
  • And They're Off! Journal article … ty of company founders Jerry Kaplan (former Lotus exec and co-founder of Teknowledge) and Robert Carr (former chief scientist at Ashton-Tate and the developer of Framework). Add last year's l …
  • Book Review: The Power of PenPoint Journal article ×3 … mpromise A good place to start your exploration of pen-based computing technology is with Robert Carr and Dan Shafer's book, The Power of PenPoint (Addison-Wesley, 1991). This new book, co-au …
  • Data Compatibility Is Key To Success of PenPoint Journal article ×3 … ture in the operating system that can be used by all application developers. According to Robert Carr, one of the founders of GO, PenPoint already addresses this problem at the user level. Th …
  • Startup: The Story of GO Corp. Journal article … project to completion. He selected Kevin Doren, along with a rising star in the industry—Robert Carr. While Carr was already employed by the number three software company of the day, Ashton- …
  • The EO Personal Communicator: First Impressions Journal article … ng with existing applications such as PenSoft's Perspective personal information manager. Robert Carr, Vice President of Software Development at GO Corp. provided the on-stage presentation. M …

Artifacts

  • GO Corporation - PenPoint Introduction Program of Events (Handout) History … graphies introduced the company's leadership: S. Jerrold Kaplan, chairman and co-founder; Robert Carr, vice president of software and co-founder; and Mike Homer, vice president of marketing.6 …
  • GO Corporation PenPointers November 1992 (Newsletter) History … ers and closed with a keynote by GO co-founder and vice president of software development Robert Carr.1 It announced a Unicode Implementors Workshop to be held in Europe on December 3 and 4, …
  • GO Corporation – PenPoint User Interface Design Reference History … delete or circling to edit — that work consistently throughout the system.3 GO co-founder Robert Carr, the company's vice president of software, said PenPoint had been designed around the ide …
  • The Power of PenPoint (Book) Description … he Power of PenPoint was a book on GO Corporation's PenPoint operating system, written by Robert Carr and Dan Shafer and published by Addison-Wesley. Carr was the architect of PenPoint and a …

Organizations

  • GO Corporation Biography ×2 … iest days, but he assembled around him a technical leadership that would prove formative. Robert Carr, formerly chief scientist at Ashton-Tate and architect of the ambitious Framework integra …