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Charles Simonyi: Microsoft Word
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According to Damer, Simonyi's little secret is this: "Charles Simonyi and most of the BravoX team left Xerox for Microsoft as a group, around about 1982 or 1983. The first version of MS Word, which appeared maybe a year later, was essentially just a port of BravoX to MS-DOS. If you read the BravoX manual, you can see that it already has MS Word features such as Styles. MS Word ... shows its ancestry in its native file format. Bravo and BravoX stored out files by essentially just dumping the memory heap. This made saving and loading documents very fast, but it also meant that a) the file format was not at all easy to decode, and b) some strange stuff, such as previously deleted text, is stored out along with live text.
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Robert M. Metcalfe took over networking at Xerox PARC from Charles Simonyi in 1972 and then got to invent Ethernet with David Boggs. He founded 3Com in 1979 and thereafter introduced Simonyi to Bill Gates—resulting in Microsoft Word, for which Bob still awaits his commission. Through the 1990s, he was the Internet pundit at InfoWorld, with over half a million infotech readers per week. At last report, his latest book, Internet Collapses, was still available down the long tail of Amazon.com—at seven-digit rank, it sells used for under a dollar. Metcalfe joined Polaris Venture Partners on January 1, 2001, and serves on the boards of Polaris-backed companies including Ember, GreenFuel, Infinite Power, Mintera, PhyFlex, and SiCortex. A 1968 graduate of MIT, he is an MIT Life Trustee and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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Dr. Simonyi's mission to the ISS is the latest destination in a life defined by exploration and discovery. Born in Budapest, Charles Simonyi earned his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University. From 1972 to 1980, Dr. Simonyi worked at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He left PARC to join Microsoft Corporation, where Dr. Simonyi held the titles of Director of Application Development, Chief Architect and Distinguished Engineer.
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Martha Stewart was at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to see her friend, Charles Simonyi, off on his jaunt into space. The Microsoft billionaire, who ran the development teams for Word and Excel, paid $25m for a ride into orbit on the Russian Soyuz craft. While the neat-freak homemaking guru was at the Russian space center, one trusts she gave a brisk lecture on cooking and cleanliness. Pictured, some cosmonaut food, and a sink in the bunker. [Photos by Esther Dyson].
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The originator of the "Hungarian Notation" used in computer programming, Charles Simonyi defected from Hungary as a student, ending up at the renowned Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Here, he was the driving force in the development of Bravo, the first WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) word-processor. Bravo was representative of a novel visual approach which enabled new means of interation between humans and computers.
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Before coming to Microsoft, Simonyi worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center developing Bravo, the first WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Simonyi holds a BS degree in engineering mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford.
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