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William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is ranked consistently one of the world's wealthiest people and the wealthiest overall as of 2009. During... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
Date of Birth:
1955
Place of Birth: Seattle
Nationality:
United States
Profession:
Entrepreneur, Programmer, Businessperson (1 hidden)
Books:
The Road Ahead (4 hidden)

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April Fools' Day Assassination of Bill Gates: In 2003, many Chinese and South Korean websites claimed that CNN reported Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, was assassinated, resulting in a 1.5% drop in the South Korean stock market.

Chuck Versus the Dream Job Ted Roark is a caricature of various business and corporate technology leaders including Apple Inc. founder and CEO Steve Jobs, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and industrialist Richard Branson.

Early College High School The program was founded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Software wars It is an example of the Evil Empire genre of humor that is endemic in hacker culture where Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is represented as the ruler of the evil Galactic Empire of the Star Wars movies or, as in this case, as one of the Borg of the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series.

Preston Gates & Ellis The "Gates" in the firm's name is William H. Gates, Sr., father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

University of Waterloo Computer Science Club 1989 Bill Gates Talk on Microsoft, a talk by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Hammer Museum In 1994, the Hammer Museum made headlines by selling Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for $30.8 million.

ictQATAR Microsoft founder Bill Gates will deliver the keynote address at the conference. ictQATAR Secretary General Dr. Hessa Al-Jaber will serve as an honorary chairperson for the conference.

Estate tax in the United States Two of the world's wealthiest men, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, William H. Gates, Sr., favor the estate tax.[2]

History of E3 Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, spoke of plans to integrate several Microsoft services into one entity with Live Anywhere.

David Bunnell While at MITS, Bunnell worked closely with Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who created the first programming language for the Altair, Altair BASIC.

Naples, Florida Bill Gates - Founder of Microsoft

She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy Bill Gates, Microsoft founder

Sierra Entertainment Microsoft founder Bill Gates had previously asked Ken how he could run such a successful business from such a remote place, and it was now apparent that it was not possible to keep doing that and still grow.

bgC3 bgC3 LLC is a company founded by Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates.

Queens Park Rangers F.C. season 2007–08 On 1 April QPR fan website Vital QPR declared an exclusive that Microsoft founder Bill Gates was to invest in the club, which, despite being an apparent April Fool joke, was repeated on general news and QPR fan sites.

Jeffrey P. Buzen Robert M. Metcalfe co-invented Ethernet, John M. McQuillan developed routing algorithms used by ARPAnet, and Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft.

Elliott Francis The list includes Charlton Heston, former White House drug czar, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Tommy Lee Jones, former President Bill Clinton, comedian Alan King, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Al Pacino, Michael Jordan, author James Baldwin and silent screen star Buddy Rogers among others.

2005 in the United Kingdom 2 March - Microsoft founder Bill Gates receives an honorary knighthood for contributions to enterprise in the UK and efforts to reduce world poverty.

Masked Avengers Past victims of their pranks have included Gilles Duceppe, rock stars Bono and Mick Jagger, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve, U.S. business tycoon Donald Trump, and 2008 United States Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Criticism of Microsoft When Microsoft discovered that its first product, Altair BASIC, was subject to widespread illegal copying, Microsoft founder Bill Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists that openly accused many hobbyists of stealing software.

William Gates Computer Science Building (Cambridge) It was named after the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, William Gates (the second).

Neelie Kroes As chairperson of Nijenrode University, Kroes awarded an honorary doctorate to Microsoft founder Bill Gates in 1996.

Queens Park Rangers F.C. season 2007-08 On 1 April QPR fan website Vital QPR declared an exclusive that Microsoft founder Bill Gates was to invest in the club, which, despite being an apparent April Fool joke, was repeated on general news and QPR fan sites.

List of minor characters in Dilbert Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has appeared several times in Dilbert.

1975 April 4 – Bill Gates founds Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

William Gates Computer Science Building (Stanford) It was named after Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who donated $6 million for the building's construction.

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World domination Because of the ubiquity of Microsoft products in the computing world, company founder Bill Gates has been parodied as seeking world domination.

bgC3 bgC3 LLC is a company founded by Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates.

Arfa Karim The Mir Khalil-ur-Rehman Foundation or the MKRF working with Microsoft, Pakistan awarded Arfa with the Shabash award for her achievements and arranged for her a trip to the Microsoft Redmond Headquarters in the USA to personally meet the company's founder - Bill Gates.

List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the company in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 4, 1975 after Gates went on leave from Harvard University.

Bill Gates bgC3, a new think-tank company founded by Bill Gates.

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Early College High School The program was founded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

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bgC3 bgC3 LLC is a company founded by Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates.

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Bill Gates In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter saying that MITS could not continue to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software without payment.

Hacker ethic As a result, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists.

Criticism of Microsoft When Microsoft discovered that its first product, Altair BASIC, was subject to widespread illegal copying, Microsoft founder Bill Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists that openly accused many hobbyists of stealing software.

Open Letter to Hobbyists The Open Letter to Hobbyists was an open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant copyright infringement taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.

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Bill Gates In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest.

Bill Gates Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well.

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Open Letter to Hobbyists The Open Letter to Hobbyists was an open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant copyright infringement taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.

Warez A famous event in the history of software piracy policy was an open letter written by Bill Gates of Microsoft, dated February 3, 1976, in which he argued that the quality of available software would increase if software piracy was less prevalent.

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Nathan Myhrvold He and Peter Rinearson helped Bill Gates write The Road Ahead, a book about the future that reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 1995 and 1996.

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Model Rocketry (magazine) Bill Gates and Paul Allen moved to Albuquerque in 1975 to write Altair BASIC and soon started Microsoft.

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Model Rocketry (magazine) Bill Gates and Paul Allen moved to Albuquerque in 1975 to write Altair BASIC and soon started Microsoft.

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Bill Gates After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes.

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How William Shatner Changed the World This led to Bill Gates writing the computer programming language BASIC for the Altair and forming Microsoft

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How William Shatner Changed the World This led to Bill Gates writing the computer programming language BASIC for the Altair and forming Microsoft

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Warez A famous event in the history of software piracy policy was an open letter written by Bill Gates of Microsoft, dated February 3, 1976, in which he argued that the quality of available software would increase if software piracy was less prevalent.

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Nathan Myhrvold He and Peter Rinearson helped Bill Gates write The Road Ahead, a book about the future that reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 1995 and 1996.

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Pancake sorting The problem can be considered notable in cultural trivia, as the only well-known mathematics paper ever written by Microsoft Chairman and billionaire Bill Gates (as William Gates), entitled "Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal" and published in 1979, describes an efficient algorithm for pancake sorting.

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DONKEY.BAS DONKEY.BAS was written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen to demonstrate the IBM PC and the BASIC programming language's capability to produce interactive programs with color graphics and sound.

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Encarta An article written by Bill Gates addressed the nature of writing encyclopedia for different regions.

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Timeline of computer security hacker history January: Bill Gates decrees that Microsoft will secure its products and services, and kicks off a massive internal training and quality control campaign.

Xbox 360 At E3 in May 2006, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft would have a head start of 10 million units by the time Sony and Nintendo entered the market.

Anti-spam techniques (e-mail) Bill Gates announced that Microsoft is working on a solution requiring so-called “unknown senders”, i.e. senders not on the Accepted List of the recipient to post “the electronic equivalent of a” stamp whose value would be lost to the sender only if the recipient disapproves of the email .

Anti-spam techniques (e-mail) Gates said that Microsoft favors other solutions in the short-term, but would rely on the contingent payment solution to solve the spam problem over the longer run.

Bill Gates In June, 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

List of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign people Bill Gates noted in a February 2004 speech that Microsoft hires more alumni of the university than from any other university in the world [10].

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Oslo (Microsoft project) At TechEd US 2008 (June 2008) Bill Gates mentioned in his keynote that more Oslo details (and a community technology preview) will be released at the Professional Developers Conference (October 2008).

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Bill Gates Gates later said that he had simply resisted attempts by Boies to mischaracterize his words and actions.

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    Bill Gates

    He is ranked consistently one of the world's wealthiest people and the wealthiest overall as of 2009. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock.
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    Category:Bill Gates

    Bill Gates Categories named after businesspeople
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    Bill Gates (frontiersman)

    "Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935.
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    Bill Gates (disambiguation)

    Bill Gates (William Henry Gates III, born 1955) is the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation Bill or William Gates is also the name of:
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    Bill Gates's house

    Bill Gates' house is a large earth-sheltered mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.
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    Bill Gates' house

    Bill Gates' house is a large earth-sheltered mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The house is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates.
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    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    If Bill Gates had been able to chat with Teddy Roosevelt before launching his breathtaking $1.5-billion program of college scholarships, America would be a better place.
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    Gates (surname)

    The Gates family of Seattle, Washington, is prominent due to the financial success of Bill Gates and his company, Microsoft.
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    Bill Gates' flower fly

    Bill Gates' flower fly (Eristalis gatesi) is a flower fly found only in Costa Rican high montane cloud forests and named after Bill Gates. Another fly found in similar habitats was named after Gates' associate Paul Allen, called Paul Allen's flower fly (Eristalis alleni); according to the US Department of Agriculture's Systematic Entomology Laboratory, both names were in "recognition of [their] great contributions to the science of Dipterology".
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    William H. Gates, Sr.

    He is the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

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