NAME: Charles Thacker

AGE: 67

EDUCATION: B.S. in physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1967

CAREER: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Computer Corp., 1968-1970; Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), 1970-1983; Digital Equipment Corp.'s Systems Research Center, 1983; Microsoft Research, Cambridge Lab, 1997; Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley Campus, 2005.