RobertStevens.org

Robert John Stevens is the CEO of WriteExpress Corporation

I believe:

• A nation of faith will prosper while a nation of fear will succomb to systematic and deliberate abuses of power.
• If the United States was a franchise, then the Constitution and Bill of Rights are its franchise documents. Only by strict adherence to them can America prosper.
• Less government is more. Genius is expressed in simplicity. It is little wonder that the Constitution is the shortest of any. Unfortunately, it has been replaced by presidential signings and thousands of bills—many the result of lobbiest pressures. These laws became part of the U.S. Code, a document not known to most Americans, which replaces the Constitution.
• The United States has followed the pattern of great civilizations. To avert following their same destiny, I believe its citizens must wake up and return to the Constitution.

My Software Inventions and Projects

Every Internet user in the entire world uses Incremental Find (listed below under 1992).

Most of these could not have been created without the writing, linguistic and editing work of Dr. Melvin Luthy, and many outstanding writers and editors including Alice Feathers and Larry Barkdull.

• February 25, 2010: More than 1,000 Free Stationery Templates

• May 2005: Journal of 9/11 Studies—Peer-reviewed science and investigation doesn't support the official government story. After I designed and programmed the Web site for Dr. Steven Jones. I believe he has maintained it ever since.

• 2005: WriteExpress 4,001 Business, Sales & Personal Letters

• 2004: Christian Art—Paid for new Website for artist Derek Hegsted and took over Web orders for a few years

• 2004: LocalPlans.com. Killer Web business. 2009—Need investment capital to finish and re-launch the company.

• 2002: WriteExpress 3,001 Business & Sales Letters

• 2001: Social Networking—Utah Valley Programmer Scott Hill and I coined it trust networking. We pitched it in 2002 to Utah Angel Investor Kyle Love and later WordPerfect co-founder Alan C. Ashton; the Orem, Utah incubator board at CEDO which included PowerQuest founder Eric Ruff, Director Brad Whitaker, and BYU Professor Gary Rhoads; I personally presented it to FamilySearch.org architect Tom Creighton, manager Steve Cannon, Oracle VP Julian Critchfield and many others. I was about to pitch it to AOL's Advanced Technology Division the day they fired me in November 2002 after just three weeks of employment spent trying to find the Time Warner Help Desk code they lost after firing the programmer and recycling his computer.

  Nobody but Scott Hill and I and our spouses believed it was a good idea. Abandoned because we both needed income.

  Still kicking myself at the time of this writing—December 8, 2009.

• 1999: Online Naming—The world's first online business- and website-naming tools

• 1997: WriteExpress Easy Letters—The ultimate tool for writing letters

• 1996: Rhymer.com—The world's first online rhyming dictionary

• 1994: Novell GroupWise Telephone Access Server (TAS) Text-To-Speech Exceptions Dictionary—The system read your e-mail messages to you by telephone

• 1992: Incremental Find—Now used everywhere on the Internet and in software applications. For example, type something in the Google edit box and a list appears.

  To quote Wikipedia, "The first mainstream appearance may have been in the Speller for WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows, released 30 November 1992. As programmer Robert John Stevens, now CEO of WriteExpress, watched users at the WordPerfect Usability Lab in Orem, Utah use the 5.1 Speller that he and Steve Cannon ported to Windows, he noticed that when a word was not found in the dictionary and no alternative words were presented, users seemed lost, moved the mouse cursor around the page and even exited the Speller. Dumbstruck by the anomaly, he went home, sat on the couch and discussed his observations with his wife when they idea came to his mind. Stevens coded the solution: as a user typed in the edit box, Speller would suggest words beginning with the letters entered."

• 1991: WordPerfect Writing Tools API—First released in WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows. After ripping the Speller and Thesaurus out of WordPerfect for DOS, I devised a communication API so these and other writing tools can install on any WordPerfect product menu, launch as a modeless dialog, highlight, manipulate and replace text in the document. This technology, last time I checked, was still being used in Novell GroupWise.

• 1991: WordPerfect 5.1 Thesaurus for Windows—Remember the three list boxes with the cool hand icon marking the last word you double clicked?

• 1990: WordPerfect Rhymer—The world's first electronic rhyming dictionary: Rhymer is a 93,460-word dictionary with one or more phonetic transcriptions per word. Originally written in Intel Assembly Language for DOS, it packed both dictionaries, two programs, Help, and install on just two 360K floppy disks.

• 1990: Phonetic Finder—The world's first electronic phonetic dictionary

• 1988: WordPerfect PC to Data General Assembly Language Automatic Code Converter—In minutes this powerful tool ported code that required weeks of manual programming. Used internally. Later replaced by the C-language ports of WordPerfect products.