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Charles simonyi and richard brodie (programmer)
Richard Brodie (programmer)
American computer programmer and author (born 1959)
Richard Reeves Brodie (born November 10, 1959) is an American computer programmer and author. He wrote the first version of Microsoft Word.[1][2] After leaving Microsoft, he became a motivational speaker and authored two books.
Biography
Early life
Brodie was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the elder son of Mary Ann Brodie and Richard Brodie, a child psychologist. He graduated from Newton South High School and entered Harvard College in the fall of 1977, concentrating in applied mathematics with an emphasis on computer science.
He left Harvard after his sophomore year and moved to Palo Alto, CA to work for Xerox Corporation's Advanced Systems Division (ASD), where he met Charles Simonyi and helped develop the Bravo X word processor for the Alto computer.[3] Simonyi became a mentor to Brodie at Xerox and took him along when he moved to Microsoft in 1981.