Product Details

• Format: DVD, Color, Subtitled, Full length, Limited Collector's Edition
• Region: All Regions
• ASIN: B00283BS7G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #466,147 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Tibor Purger's two-part documentary on the world-renowned computer scientist and the world's first two-time private space traveler. Dr. Simonyi is a software engineer and scientist, inventor of Hungarian Notation and the first WYSIWYG word processor (the predecessor of Microsoft Word). At age 14 he won the first Hungarian televised student competition on space exploration and traveled to Star City to meet with Soviet cosmonauts. He learned programming on a Soviet-made URAL-2 at age 15 in Budapest. At 17, he left Communist Hungary on his own to work in Denmark and one year later moved on to study in the United States. He develeoped BRAVO at PARC but left Palo Alto to work for Microsoft. Four decades later he returned to Star City as a billionaire and the fifth private space traveler. In 2009, he became the first private citizen to visit the International Space Station for a second time. Hungarian Duna Television's crew followed Simonyi for a year and a half across three continents and six countries in order to understand how the dreams of this genius from Budapest come true. The first part of the documentary is devoted to Simonyi's first space adventure while the second portrays the scientist and the man.