The invention of Intellisense, Matthew's most impressive programming patent, began while visiting his sister Laura, President of Integrated Statistics. "Matt needed a programming project in Visual Basic (VB). My client needed a program to measure the speed and location of marine mammals, like dolphins. Once he started, Matt realized VB needed statement completion.
Friend and co-inventor David Sobeski, former Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of The Walt Disney Company, continues the story, "We were working on VB. Matt was working on the compiler when he tells me he has the symbol table and a lot of data which we can use to predict what people should type next. In a weekend, he and Martin Cibulka created a prototype. Then we created what nerds call statement completion but marketing named Intellisense. We showed Bill Gates. He was floored. Matt fundamentally changed how developers wrote code."
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