Jonathan Fay

Who is Jonathan Fay?

Jonathan Fay is an Argentina-born, American software developer who writes software for Astronomy, imaging and visualization. He is the Principal Software Developer for WorldWide Telescope in the Microsoft Research Next Media Group. He was Lead Developer for Microsoft Image Composer and other imaging products at Microsoft. He has patents and patent applications in imaging, visualization and information security.

Fay's first entry in the commercial software market came in 1982 at the age of 16 with the introduction of Chart-EX an application to make charts from business spread sheets on a personal computer.

Fay joined Microsoft in 1993 working for Microsoft Consulting Services. While trying to help clients solve memory problems deploying Windows 3.1 in corporate network environments he discovered that the common "Out of Memory" messages that many Windows users received even when there seemed to be plenty of free memory and few applications were running, were not actually a fundamental windows limitation, but a hiccup from Windows past: all applications needed 512 bytes of RAM in DOS memory for a Task Database Entry.