Greg Whitten
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Greg Whitten is a former Microsoft Chief software architect where he worked from 1979 to 1998. Whitten graduated from University of Virginia with a B.A. in mathematics and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. Since 1998, he has been CEO of NumeriX. He is also a vintage car enthusiast.
"GW" in the name of the GW-BASIC dialect of BASIC developed by Microsoft may have come form Greg Whitten's initials:
- "The GW-BASIC name stands for Gee-Whiz BASIC. The GW- name was picked by Bill Gates. He is the one who knows whether it was Gee-Whiz or after me because it has been used both ways. I did set the directions for the BASIC language features after joining the company in 1979."[1]
- - Greg Whitten, 13 Apr 2005
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