Charles Simonyi

It's a shame, really, because you'd like to feel that you were having the chance to influence people." For 13 years, Dawkins was the Charles Simonyi professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford University, a position created for...

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...can meet its scheduled launch date. Still, the price tag falls far below the $35 million paid by first repeat space tourist Charles Simonyi, or the same higher amount required to book an orbital vacation aboard a surplus Soviet-era military...

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...difficult to find what they're looking for. " After a six-month stint at Bellevue, WA-based Intentional Software (billionaire Charles Simonyi's company), Kersten decided to quit industry to do fundamental research on how to improve...

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...International Space Station aboard Russian rockets, and recently spent months in Russia training as understudy to Charles Simonyi. However, Simonyi made his trip into orbit as planned, and Dyson returned to the States saying she remains...

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...Forbes magazine. Laliberte has not disclosed how much he paid for the trip, though the last space tourist, US software pioneer Charles Simonyi, paid 35 million US dollars (28 million euros) for the privilege. The Canadian could be the last...

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...in 2004 at Windsor Castle outside London. The connection: former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi. Dawkins, a biologist, was the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University until he...

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...Series at the University of Washington's department of computer science and engineering was just like that-if your friend were Charles Simonyi, a software billionaire, showing you videos from a $35 million vacation in space. Simonyi,...

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...to leave a place for humour." Quite what Laliberte paid for his jaunt is unknown, but the same trip cost US space tourist Charles Simonyi a cool $35m. Laliberte will return to Earth on 10 October along with Expedition 20 crew members...

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...at $2.5 billion. He is accompanied by Suraev and U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams. U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi made history in March when he became the first space tourist to make the epic journey twice, also from the Baikonur...

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...computer science and engineering announced its Distinguished Lecturer Series for the fall. Highlights will include talks by spaceman Charles Simonyi of Intentional Software (Oct. 1), cooking science experts Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young of...

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