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Charles Simonyi: Intentional Software
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As a researcher at the famed Xerox PARC in the mid-1970s, Charles Simonyi built the world's first What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get word processor. In 1981 he moved on to Microsoft, where he led the development of Word and Excel. Today he runs Intentional Software, a company that aims to turn even the greenest computer users into programmers.
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Simonyi remained at Microsoft during its meteoric rise in the software industry, becoming one of its highest-ranking developers. He left abruptly in 2002 to co-found, with business partner Gregor Kiczales, a company called Intentional Software.[4] This company markets the intentional programming concepts Simonyi developed at Microsoft Research. In this approach to software, a programmer first builds a toolbox specific to a given problem domain (such as life insurance). Domain experts, aided by the programmer, then describe the program's intended behavior in a WYSIWYG-like manner. An automated system uses the program description and the toolbox to generate the final program. Successive changes are only done at the WYSIWYG level.[5]
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Ambassador of Hungary András Simonyi presented Mr. Charles Simonyi with the Commander’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary at the Ambassador’s Residence on October 4. The computer developer was awarded this medal by President of the Republic László Sólyom in March 2006 for for his outstanding and internationally renowned achievements in the field of software development and his contribution to Hungarian American technological relations and to promoting Hungary’s image in the world.
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CHARLES SIMONYI, Chief Architect, Microsoft Corporation, joined Microsoft in 1981 to start the development of microcomputer application programs. He hired and managed teams who developed Microsoft Excel, Multiplan, Word, and other applications. In 1991, he moved on to Microsoft Research where he focused on Intentional Programming, an "ecology for abstractions" which strives for maximal reuse of components by separating high level intentions from implementation detail.
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Simonyi is joining Xerox researcher Gregor Kiczales to form a new company called Intentional Software Corporation, which will work on low-level software development tools designed to help software designs be translated into actual source code. These tools may use graphic images as well as the more typical text-based source code to represent underlying software programs. It's a technical subject for a highly sophisticated and technical man who, though a billionaire, never had any interest in the business side of Microsoft.
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Simonyi had been researching intentional programming at Microsoft. The new company has already signed a licensing deal with Microsoft that gives the computing giant "first right of negotiation" for any new developments. Intentional will ... get licenses to relevant Microsoft intellectual property. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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