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Monte Davidoff (; born 1956) is an American
computer programmer A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code someone with skill in computer programming. The professional titles ''software developer'' and ''software engineer'' are used for jobs that require a progr ...
. Davidoff is from Glendale, Wisconsin. He graduated from Nicolet High School in 1974, and went on to
Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate education, undergraduate college of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Scienc ...
, where he majored in
applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematics, mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and Industrial sector, industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a ...
, the department at Harvard that, at the time, included
computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
. Davidoff also worked at WHRB, the college radio station, and graduated from Harvard in 1978. A college dormmate of
Bill Gates William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend ...
who had a summer job at Gates's new company
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...
during college, Davidoff is best known for writing the Microsoft Binary Format
floating-point arithmetic In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic on subsets of real numbers formed by a ''significand'' (a Sign (mathematics), signed sequence of a fixed number of digits in some Radix, base) multiplied by an integer power of that ba ...
routines for Altair BASIC while he was at Harvard. The routines were subsequently reused in Microsoft BASIC products for other systems. 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


External links


Alluvial Software2001 Interview with Davidoff
in ''
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2022 Interview with Davidoff
in the
Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast
' 1956 births Living people People from Glendale, Wisconsin American computer programmers Harvard College alumni Multics people Microsoft employees {{US-compu-bio-stub