Monte Davidoff (born 1956) is an American computer programmer. He is Microsoft's first software engineer and part-time employee during the Micro-Soft partnership in February 1975.
Biography[]
Davidoff was born in 1956 and grew up in Glendale, Wisconsin.[1]
Education[]
He graduated from Nicolet High School in 1974, and went on to Harvard College, where he majored in applied mathematics, the department at Harvard that, at the time, included computer science. Davidoff also worked at WHRB, the college radio station, and graduated from Harvard in 1978.
Career[]
Microsoft[]
As a college dormmate of Bill Gates he joined Gates's new company Microsoft during college in 1975 for a summer part-time job as the company's first software engineer, Davidoff is best known for writing the Microsoft Binary Format floating-point arithmetic routines for Altair BASIC while he was at Harvard. The routines were subsequently reused in Microsoft BASIC products for other systems.
He left the summer part-time position at Microsoft in August 1975 for other job opportunities, but later rejoined to help out the company with several of its projects in June 1977, he later left once again in August 1977.
Other jobs[]
He later worked at Honeywell Information Systems on the Multics project, Tandem Computers, Ready Systems, and Stratus Computer.
Since 2000, he has consulted through his own company, Alluvial Software.
See also[]
- Microsoft Binary Format
References[]
- ↑ Leibovich, Mark (2000-12-31). "Alter Egos" (in en-US). Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.