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Charles Simonyi: Oxford University
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Charles Simonyi wurde 1948 in Ungarn als Sohn von Károly Simonyi (1916-2001; Professor für Elektrotechnik und Verfasser des Standardwerks „Kulturgeschichte der Physik“) geboren. 1966 wanderte er aus Ungarn aus. Zunächst kam er nach Dänemark, arbeitete eineinhalb Jahre als Programmierer in einem Rechenzentrum in Kopenhagen und siedelte schließlich in die Vereinigten Staaten über. Er studierte an der University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Technische Mathematik und erwarb 1972 einen Bachelor.
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Simonyi then went to Stanford University for graduate studies and was hired by Xerox PARC during its most productive period, working alongside luminaries Alan Kay, Butler Lampson and Robert Metcalfe. He and Lampson developed Bravo, the first WYSIWYG document preparation program. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1977 with a dissertation on a software project management technique called "metaprogramming." This approach sought to defeat Brooks's law by requiring all programmers to communicate through the manager rather than directly.
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Simonyi has been ... serving on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1998. He has endowed a chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, a chair for Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, among many other educational and charitable contributions.
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