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Charles Simonyi, Gennady Padalka, and Michael Barratt (Foreground, from left) Charles Simonyi, Gennady Padalka, and Michael Barratt walking to the bus that will take them to the Baikonur space center, Kazakhstan, March 26, 2009.

Charles Simonyi

American software executive and space tourist
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Simonyi Karolyi
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September 10, 1948, Budapest, Hungary (age 76)
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Charles Simonyi (born September 10, 1948, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born American software executive and space tourist. Simonyi left Hungary in 1966 to work at the Danish computer company Regnecentralen. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in engineering mathematics and later earned a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University. After working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC)—where he created the first WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) text editor—from 1972 to 1980, Simonyi joined the Microsoft Corporation in 1981. While at Microsoft he led the development of the widely ...(100 of 286 words)

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