Intentional Software Corporation -- New Venture Set for Dramatic Improvement of Software Code.Business/Photo Editors, Technology Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2002 Dr. Charles Simonyi (person) Charles Simonyi - Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond. , Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and Professor Gregor Kiczales Gregor Kiczales is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Canada. He co-founded Intentional Software with Charles Simonyi in 2002, but no longer appears to have any affiliation with that company. of the University of British Columbia Locations Vancouver The Vancouver campus is located at Point Grey, a twenty-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. It is near several beaches and has views of the North Shore mountains. The 7. today announced the formation of Intentional Software Corporation (ISC (1) (Internet Systems Consortium, Redwood City, CA www.isc.org) An organization founded by Paul Vixie, Carl Malamud and Rick Adams in 1994 and later sponsored by UUNET and other Internet companies. ), a new company that will develop technology to greatly improve software development productivity by capturing the design intent clearly in the code. In addition, a licensing agreement with Microsoft has been signed that -- in essence -- gives Microsoft a "first right of negotiation" for developments in the critical early years. Simonyi has worked at Microsoft for more than 20 years where he spearheaded important groundbreaking software development projects including Microsoft Word and many other Microsoft applications. Kiczales has led development at the Palo Alto Research Center Palo Alto Research Center - XEROX PARC of aspect-oriented programming and AspectJ, an important new software development technology. "For the past several years at Microsoft I have been pursuing the dream of intentional technology," said Simonyi. "I am excited to be continuing that work in the focused environment of our new company and with Microsoft's blessing, which is very important to me." "I'm very excited about the work that Charles is pursuing and very pleased that we will continue to have an ongoing relationship," said Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect. "Charles has made many significant contributions to Microsoft over the years, and this latest work has enormous potential to dramatically enhance programming in a number of areas." Kiczales notes, "There is tremendous synergy between intentional programming and aspect-oriented technology. Working together, Intentional Software Corporation will be able to give developers some exciting, and very useful tools. Our AspectJ users are already asking for tools like these." Gates and Simonyi said that the new corporation would enable Simonyi to assemble a unique team of academic and commercial talent, and provide both the incentive and the market discipline necessary to pursue the uncertain, but potentially revolutionary vision of intentional programming. The agreement ensures that Simonyi will continue to be an important part of the "Microsoft family" and provides licenses to relevant Microsoft intellectual property so that Simonyi and his team can continue to develop this technology. Intentional Software Corporation is dedicated to building software programming tools and technologies that enable programmers to capture design intent explicitly in the code. The new tools will help bridge the gap between the needs of the program's stakeholders: the programmers, designers, creative artists, domain experts, lawyers, and others. These tools will also improve the value of the software by increasing its quality and making it less expensive to maintain. The tools developed by Intentional Software Corporation will be based in part on recent innovations in aspect-oriented programming, generative or transformational programming, and intentional programming. Intentional Software tools will be of value in nearly all kinds of software development. Some examples where the use of intentional software will greatly simplify incremental product enhancements include creation of complex websites, user interfaces for common consumer electronics products such as cell phones and printers, embedded systems and user interfaces for automotive and avionics applications, and many more. For more information visit: www.intentionalsoftware.com About Microsoft Corporation Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device. About Charles Simonyi, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President. Charles Simonyi, 54, is co-founder of Intentional Software Corporation (ISC) along with his business partner, Gregor Kiczales. The company was created in August 2002. Simonyi was employed by Microsoft Corporation from 1972-2002, where he held titles of Director of Application Development, Chief Architect, and most recently, Distinguished Engineer. While at Microsoft, Simonyi hired and managed teams that developed Microsoft Multiplan, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and other best selling software applications. Simonyi worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA, www.parc.com) Founded in 1970, PARC is a Xerox subsidiary involved in high-tech research and development. Although Xerox's headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, and manufacturing and marketing are in Rochester, New York, PARC is ) from 1972-1980 where he created the first WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. (what you see is what you get (jargon) What You See Is What You Get - (WYSIWYG) /wiz'ee-wig/ Describes a user interface for a document preparation system under which changes are represented by displaying a more-or-less accurate image of the way the document will finally appear, e.g. when printed. ) user interface called Bravo. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Simonyi earned his B.S. in engineering mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. , and a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University. Simonyi has served on the Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University since 1998. He has also endowed chairs for advanced scientific and engineering studies at Oxford University, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and at Stanford University. Simonyi is an avid collector of modern art, enjoys classical music and is an experienced pilot. About Gregor Kiczales, Vice-President of Development Gregor Kiczales, 42, is co-founder of Intentional Software Corporation (ISC) along with his business partner, Charles Simonyi. Prior to founding Intentional Software, Kiczales was a Professor at the University of British Columbia, and a Principal Scientist at PARC. He was the leader of the PARC team that developed the AspectJ programming language. The focus of his research work has been technologies that enable software developers to clearly express the design structure of the systems they build. He has more than 15 years of experience in delivering these technologies into the hands of developers. He was a member of the ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. CLOS CLOS - Common LISP Object System design team, and the implementer of the reference implementation that formed the basis of all commercial implementations. He was the lead designer of the CLOS metaobject protocol, and author, with Jim des Rivieres and Danny Bobrow of "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1991). Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.091702/bb8 |
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