Software pioneer Charles Simonyi on the quest for galactic discoveries
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🗓️ 28 September 2024
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Charles Simonyi is known in the tech industry for his work at Microsoft. He played a leading role in creating Word, Excel and other programs back in the 1980s. He rejoined the company in 2017 with its acquisition of his startup, Intentional Software.
But he's had a longtime fascination with space, taking two trips to the International Space Station, in 2007 and 2009, and helping to fund a long-awaited new space survey telescope in Chile that bears his family's name.
On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, Simonyi speaks with Geekwire contributing editor Alan Boyle, the veteran space and science journalist, about the new Simonyi Survey Telescope, the potential for new discoveries, and his longtime fascination with space.
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| 0:58.7 | Welcome to GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. Charles Simone is known in the tech industry for his work at Microsoft. He played a leading role in creating Word, Excel, and other programs back in the 1980s. |
| 1:07.0 | He rejoined the company in 2017 with its acquisition of his startup, Intentional Software. But he's had a long time fascination with space. |
| 1:16.0 | He took two trips to the International Space Station in 2007 and 2009, and he helped to fund a long-awaited new Space Survey Telescope in Chile that bears his family's name. |
| 1:28.4 | On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, Simony speaks with GeekWire |
| 1:33.0 | Contributing editor Alan Boyle, the veteran space and science |
| 1:36.7 | journalist about the new Simone survey telescope, |
| 1:39.9 | the potential for new discoveries, |
| 1:41.9 | and his longtime fascination with space. |
| 1:45.0 | Here's Alan. |
| 1:46.0 | It's been more than 15 years since Charles Simone pledged $20 million to give a boost to a project known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. |
| 1:56.7 | Now that project is known as the Vera C Rubin Observatory with an 8.4 meter telescope called the Simony Survey Telescope. |
| 2:05.0 | I've been covering Charles and the Telescope Project |
| 2:08.0 | starting with that first news story about the pledge. |
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