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1.) Simonyi?s INTENTIONAL Software History Revision?
Over one day ago | Wed Jun 25 11:43:00 PDT 2008
But, Charles Simonyi, now of Intentional Software, and an ex-Microsoft executive, is either delusional or intentionally revising history of the tech industry. In his HIGH FIVE Interview in InformationWeek recently, ...
From imrananwar
2.) Richard Dawkins: Information Theory Podcast Week Seven
Over one day ago | Thu Jul 17 6:35:00 PDT 2008
He?s also a pre-eminent scientist, the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, and is a fellow of New College, Oxford. His most recent book is The Oxford Guide to Modern Science ...
From Cassie
3.) Famous Programmers From Adleman to Zimmermann
Over one day ago | Sun Jun 29 18:42:00 PDT 2008
Another highlight from the ?other? category is Charles Simonyi, inventor of the dreaded Hungarian notation, and to throw in a bit of random trivia, also the fifth space tourist. How many projects does it take to become a famous ...
From jess
4.) Top 50 Tech Visionaries
Over one day ago | Fri Jun 6 22:54:00 PDT 2008
Charles Simonyi Charles Simonyi plus a little Gatesian muscle natch is the reason you use Word and Excel instead of WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. As head of Microsoft s application development group Simonyi oversaw development of both ...
From citywoku30673
5.) Richard Dawkins: Podcast Week Three
Over one day ago | Wed Jun 18 5:53:00 PDT 2008
He?s also a pre-eminent scientist, the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, and is a fellow of New College, Oxford. Called ?Darwin?s Rottweiler? by the media, he is one of the most ...
From Cassie
6.) The Necessity of Mathematics
Over one day ago | Tue Jun 17 12:22:00 PDT 2008
Charles Simonyi draws a distinction between those who merely ?popularize? a science and those who promote the public understanding of it. We might more generously speak of bad popularizers and good ones, but the distinction between ...
From Blake Stacey
7.) Relevance of Religion ?
Over one day ago | Sun Jun 1 10:47:00 PDT 2008
Richard Dawkins(Inset Pic), the British ethologist and evolutionary Biologist who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford has always(correctly) maintained that belief about ...
From strollinthunder
8.) Who Is This "Licklider" Guy?
Over one day ago | Wed May 21 19:00:00 PDT 2008
One example was Charles Simonyi, who took his ideas Bravo word processing ideas north to a relatively new company in Washington named Microsoft. It was a huge difference in culture. Simonyi's commented on the contrast: ...
From Jeff Moser
9.) An Illustrated History of Computers
Over one day ago | Thu Jun 26 0:38:00 PDT 2008
It was designed by Butler Lampson and Charles Simonyi who had started working on these concepts around 1970 while at Berkeley. The first commercial WYSIWYG editors were the Star, LisaWrite and then MacWrite. For a survey of text editors ...
From Dipu
10.) Is Science Killing The Soul?
Over one day ago | Wed May 14 19:33:00 PDT 2008
One of them is Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, and he's the man who more than two decades ago introduced the notion of the selfish gene, upsetting a lot of ...
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