High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Proulx is an American computer programmer and company founder. He was a co-founder of Intuit and a pioneer of usability testing in the 1980s. He lives in Atherton, California, one of the wealthiest cities in the United States, on an 11-acre estate that includes a private 3-hole golf course, the largest property in Atherton.In 1983 Scott Cook went to Stanford University in California, USA. He wanted a programmer for a planned home bill payment and bank reconciliation program. Proulx, who studied Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at Stanford, was the first person Cook met and they soon co-founded Intuit. Proulx was the first and main programmer of the first version of Quicken and the first Apple and Radio Shack versions. He obtained a patent for finding a way for a computer to verify that a user had correctly inserted blank checks in a dot matrix printer. This was essential to the near universal use of such checks in accounting programs.

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