Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Alan Boyd, born Kilwinning, Scotland, 1951, is a pioneer of the personal computer software industry through the 1970s and 1980s. Leaving Scotland in 1968 he studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Bath in England and later Columbia University in the USA. In the mid-1970s he hand-built one of the earliest personal computers and taught himself how to program microprocessors, writing some innovative machine code to do complex mathematics in a very limited memory space (256 bytes). After a spell working as a professional audio engineer he befriended Bill Gates and Paul Allen and moved to Seattle to become Manager of Product Development at Microsoft in 1980.. }
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- Alan_M._Boyd abstract "Alan Boyd, born Kilwinning, Scotland, 1951, is a pioneer of the personal computer software industry through the 1970s and 1980s. Leaving Scotland in 1968 he studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Bath in England and later Columbia University in the USA. In the mid-1970s he hand-built one of the earliest personal computers and taught himself how to program microprocessors, writing some innovative machine code to do complex mathematics in a very limited memory space (256 bytes). After a spell working as a professional audio engineer he befriended Bill Gates and Paul Allen and moved to Seattle to become Manager of Product Development at Microsoft in 1980.".