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Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi

Charles Simonyi at the Johnson Space Center on Dec. 13, 2006.

Spaceflight Participant
Nationality American / Hungarian
Born September 10, 1948 (1948-09-10) (age 59)
Budapest, Hungary
Current
occupation		 Software architect
Space time 13d 18h 59m
Selection 2006
Missions Soyuz TMA-10, Soyuz TMA-9
Mission
insignia

Charles Simonyi (Hungarian: Simonyi Károly; born September 10, 1948, Budapest) is a computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship office applications[1][2]. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Hungarians (or Magyars, magyarok are an Ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Software architect is a general term that may refer to a broad range of roles Soyuz TMA-10 was a Human spaceflight mission using a Soyuz-TMA spacecraft to transport personnel to and from the International Space Station (ISS Soyuz TMA-9 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle Hungarian ( magyar nyelv) is a Uralic language (more specifically a Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications servers and services collectively referred to as an Office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and He now heads his own company, Intentional Software[1], with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of intentional programming. Intentional Software is a software company founded by Charles Simonyi. In Computer programming, intentional programming is a collection of concepts which enable software Source code to reflect the precise information called intention In 2007, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. Space tourism is the recent Phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space pioneered by Russia Hungarians (or Magyars, magyarok are an Ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. His estimated net worth is $1 billion[3]. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been

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Biography

Simonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Károly Simonyi, a professor of electrical engineering at Technical University of Budapest. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic The Budapest University of Technology and Economics ( Hungarian: Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem or in short Műegyetem) abbreviated While in high school he worked part-time as a night watchman at a computer laboratory, overseeing a large Soviet Ural II mainframe. High school is the name used in some parts of the world (in particular Scotland, North America and Australia) to describe an institution Ural is a computer series built in Soviet Union. History The Ural was developed at the Electronic Computer Producing Manufacturer of Penza in the Soviet He took an interest in computing and learned to program from one of the laboratory's engineers. By the time he left school, he had learned to develop compilers and sold one of these to a government department. A compiler is a Computer program (or set of programs that translates text written in a computer language (the source language) into another He was hired by Denmark's A/S Regnecentralen in 1966 and moved to the United States in 1968 to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his B.S. in Engineering Mathematics, specializing in Mathematics and Statistics, in 1972. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Regnecentralen, or RC for short was the first Danish Computer company founded on October 12, 1955. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S

Simonyi then went to Stanford University[1] for graduate studies and was hired by Xerox PARC[1] during its most productive period, working alongside luminaries Alan Kay, Butler Lampson and Robert Metcalfe. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc formerly Xerox PARC, is a Research and development company in Palo Alto California that began as a division of Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American Computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on Object-oriented programming Butler W Lampson (born 1943 is a renowned Computer scientist. Robert Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet He and Lampson developed Bravo, the first WYSIWYG document preparation program. Bravo was the first WYSIWYG Document preparation program. It provided multi-font capability using the Bitmap displays on WYSIWYG (ˈwɪziwɪg or /ˈwɪzɪwɪg/ is an Acronym for W hat Y ou S ee I s W hat Y ou G He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1977 with a dissertation on a software project management technique called "metaprogramming. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. " This approach sought to defeat Brooks's law by requiring all programmers to communicate through the manager rather than directly. Brooks's law is a principle in Software development which says that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later"

In 1981, at Metcalfe's suggestion, he applied directly to Bill Gates for a job at Microsoft. If you would like to experiment with Wikipedia please copy At the firm, Simonyi oversaw the development of what became its most profitable products, Word and Excel, as well as Excel's predecessor Multiplan. Microsoft Word is Microsoft 's flagship word processing software. In Computing, Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) consists of a proprietary Spreadsheet -application written and distributed Multiplan was an early Spreadsheet program developed by Microsoft. With Multiplan, Simonyi pursued a strategy called the "revenue bomb", whereby the product ran on a virtual machine that was ported to each platform. In Computer science, a virtual machine (VM is a Software implementation of a machine (computer that executes programs like a real machine The resulting application was highly portable, although Simonyi did not foresee the rapid adoption of MS-DOS that made such efforts less important. MS-DOS (short for M icro' s' oft D isk O perating S ystem is an Operating system commercialized by Microsoft. [4] Simonyi introduced the techniques of object-oriented programming that he had learned at Xerox to Microsoft and developed the Hungarian notation convention for naming variables that has been widely adopted. Object-oriented programming (OOP is a Programming paradigm that uses " objects " and their interactions to design applications and computer programs Hungarian notation is a naming convention in Computer programming, in which the name of a variable indicates its type or intended use

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. Gregor Kiczales is a Professor of Computer science at the University of British Columbia in Canada. [5] This company markets the intentional programming concepts Simonyi developed at Microsoft Research. In Computer programming, intentional programming is a collection of concepts which enable software Source code to reflect the precise information called intention 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 What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)-like manner. WYSIWYG (ˈwɪziwɪg or /ˈwɪzɪwɪg/ is an Acronym for W hat Y ou S ee I s W hat Y ou G An automated system uses the program description and the toolbox to generate the final program. Successive changes are only done at the WYSIWYG level. [6]

In 2004, Simonyi received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for the industry-wide impact of his innovative work in information technology. In 2002 the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania and Infosys teamed to express their shared commitment to promoting business innovation by

Simonyi has been an active philanthropist. In 1995 he established an endowed chair for the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, the first and current occupant of which is Richard Dawkins. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941 is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and Popular science He also established a Charles Simonyi Professor for Innovation in Teaching endowed chair at Stanford University. Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in In January 2004, Simonyi created the $50 million Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences, through which Simonyi plans to support Seattle-area arts, science, and educational programs. Initial grant recipients include the Seattle Symphony ($10 million), and the Seattle Public Library ($3 million). The Seattle Symphony is an American Orchestra based in Seattle Washington. The Seattle Public Library (SPL is the Public library system serving Seattle, Washington, USA and King County In 2005, the Fund donated $25 million to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton New Jersey, United States is a center for theoretical research See also Princeton Township New Jersey, Borough of Princeton New Jersey Princeton Borough New Jersey Princeton Township New Jersey this

Personal life

As of February 2008 Simonyi has been dating Martha Stewart for 14 years. Martha Stewart (born Martha Helen Kostyra; August 3, 1941) is an American Business magnate, Television host, author [7]

Simonyi is the owner of the purpose-built super yacht named Skat. The term luxury yacht refers to a very expensive privately owned Yacht which is professionally crewed The Skat is a Luxury yacht built by Lürssen of Bremen, Germany as project 9906 a number prominently displayed on the hull in a font

Simonyi's residence in Medina, Washington, "Villa Simonyi", is a modern house designed by architect Wendell Lovett, where Simonyi displays his collection of paintings by Roy Lichtenstein and Victor Vasarely. Medina is a city located in the Eastside, a region of King County Washington. Wendell Harper Lovett (b April 2, 1922 is a significant Pacific Northwest Architect and Teacher. Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27 1923 &ndash September 29 1997 was a prominent American Pop artist his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and Victor Vasarely (Vásárhelyi Győző ( 9 April, 1906, Pécs - 15 March, 1997, Paris) was a Hungarian

Space tourist

In early 2006, Simonyi expressed interest in becoming a space tourist and signed agreements with the space tourism company, Space Adventures, Ltd. Space tourism is the recent Phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space pioneered by Russia Space Adventures Ltd is a Space tourism company that provides access to space to private citizens , for a ten-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

In August 2006, he passed a pre-qualification medical exam by the Russian Federal Space Agency, called the State Medical Commission (GMK). He started training at Star City in September 2006. Star City (Звёздный городок Zvyozdny Gorodok) is a military research and training facility near [2]

He launched on April 7, 2007 (GMT),[8] on board Soyuz TMA-10. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Soyuz TMA-10 was a Human spaceflight mission using a Soyuz-TMA spacecraft to transport personnel to and from the International Space Station (ISS He shared a ride with two Russian cosmonauts to the ISS, and returned aboard Soyuz TMA-9, scheduled to depart from the ISS on April 20, 2007. Soyuz TMA-9 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle Events 1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

Upon arrival to the ISS on April 9, 2007 Simonyi said, "It is amazing how it appears from the blackness of the sky. Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. It was very, very dramatic. It was like a big stage set, a fantastic production of some incredible opera or modern play. That's what I was referring to when I said I was blown away. "[9]

Simonyi's expected return on April 20 was delayed by one day due to 'boggy ground'. Events 1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII. He returned to Earth on April 21 along with an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut. [10]

Radio communication while aboard ISS

Charles Simonyi is a licensed amateur radio operator with the call sign KE7KDP, and planned to contact a number of schools while on his flight on the International Space Station utilizing amateur radio for the communication with those schools. See also Amateur radio An amateur radio operator is an individual who typically uses equipment at an Amateur radio station to engage in two-way In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is both a Hobby and a service in which participants called "hams" use various types of Radio communications On April 11, 2007 the American Radio Relay League reported that Simonyi was already making ham radio contacts from space. Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The American Radio Relay League (ARRL is the largest membership association of Amateur radio enthusiasts in the USA. [11]

One of the schools Simonyi contacted was Cedar Point Elementary in Bristow, Virginia. Bristow is an Unincorporated town in Prince William County, Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state A telebridge conversation was held on Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Onboard with him were Oleg Kotov and Fyodor Yurchikhin.

Simonyi used his Hungarian call sign HA5SIK[12] when he contacted 25 radio amateurs from Hungary in a record attempt on April 12. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He contacted former and current students of Tivadar Puskás Polytechnic, Budapest on April 13[12]. Tivadar Puskás ( 17 September, 1844 Pest - 16 March, 1893 Budapest) was a Hungarian Inventor, Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople

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  3. ^ The World's Billionaires - No.891 Charles Simonyi. Forbes (2007). Forbes is an American Publishing and media company Its flagship publication Forbes magazine is published bi-weekly Retrieved on 2008-05-21. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
  4. ^ Robert Mitchell (2002-12-09). See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city Microsoft Days: Transforming the Desktop. Computerworld. Computerworld is an IT magazine that provides information to technology managers Retrieved on 2008-05-21. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
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  7. ^ Martha Stewart Still Stewing Over Donald Trump. People (2008-01-12). An English Noun The English noun people has two distinct fields of application as a countable noun, a group of Humans 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Retrieved on 2008-05-21. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
  8. ^ American space 'nerd' blasts off. BBC News (2007-04-07). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Retrieved on 2008-05-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
  9. ^ Tourist Talks From Space. Sky News (2007-04-11). Sky News is a rolling TV news channel providing 24 hour news coverage including the latest breaking news Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Retrieved on 2008-05-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
  10. ^ Space tourist makes safe return. BBC News (2007-04-21). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date) Retrieved on 2008-05-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
  11. ^ Civilian Space Traveler Already Making Ham Radio Contacts from Space. American Radio Relay League (2007-04-11). The American Radio Relay League (ARRL is the largest membership association of Amateur radio enthusiasts in the USA. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Retrieved on 2008-05-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
  12. ^ a b Rádiókapcsolat Charles Simonyival (Radio Connection with Charles Simonyi) (Hungarian). Természet Világa (2007-04-12). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

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