Who I Am:
Designer, Generalist, Contrarian Theodor Holm Nelson, 1937-
Best known for: coining terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia," 1963 (first published 1965), and as founder and pursuer of  Project Xanadu®, which has been widely misunuderstood.

¶ Current positions: Visiting Professor of Environmental Information, Keio University SFC campus, Fujisawa, Japan • Visiting Professor of Multimedia, University of Southampton, Southampton, England.
¶ Mentors (aside from my family): Leo Rosten • Michael Scriven • Thomas C. Schelling • John Walker
¶ Degrees:  B.A., Philosophy, Swarthmore. 1959 • M.A., Sociology, Harvard, 1963 (from the late lamented Dept. of Social Relations)
¶ Books: Life, Love, College, etc.• Media 72 • Computer Lib / Dream Machines • The Home Computer Revolution • Literary Machines • Biostrategy and Polymind • The Checkmate Proposal • The Future of Information
¶ Articles: a large listing of my articles has been kept by Andrew Pam at the Xanadu Australia site.  (Some may not be in correct academic form, but it's the most complete listing.  There is regrettably no full listing of my magazine articles for ROM, Creative Computing or NewMedia, since I don't know which ones they published or when.)
¶ Coined these words in some degrees of general use: "hypertext" and" "hypermedia" (1965) • "zipper lists" (1965) • "softcopy" (ca. 1967) • "cybercrud" (ca. 1967) • "compound document" (date unclear) • "image synthesis" (1970); "electronic visualization" (1972 -- and thus the later "computer visualization", "scientific visualization") • "dildonics" (1974) • "virtuality" in its computer sense (1975)  • "technoid" (1981) • "docuverse" (1981) • "transclusion" (1987) • "micropayment" (1992)
¶ Awards etc: Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, 1998, presented at WWW7, Brisbane, Australia • There is an eponymous "Nelson award" given at the annual ACM hypertext conference for the best paper by a newcomer (sponsored by Microcosm, Ltd.)