William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28‚ 1955)[4] is an American business magnate‚ investor‚ philanthropist‚ and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft‚ the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people[5] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009‚ excluding 2008‚ when he was ranked third.[6] During his career at Microsoft‚ Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect‚ and remains
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Bill Gates: An Important Visionary For Better or Worse by Blake Noonan Having an imagination is a virtue. Imagining an entirely new way to communicate and interact with others through a machine is amazing in itself. Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world‚ but some consider him as the most ingenious too. Others see him as a monopolizing‚ money hungry nerd. William Gates III was born in Seattle‚ Washington in 1955. When he was thirteen‚ he wrote his first software program
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On February 26th‚ Bill Gates gave a speech to governors‚ policy makers‚ and business leaders from across the nation to discuss the problems with education. During that speech‚ Bill Gates gave a keynote address where he called American public schools "obsolete." This statement made by one of the most powerful and influential men in the world could destroy the education systems of the United States let alone destroy the education systems of the world. Gates has spent almost a billion dollars influencing
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HOME READING ASSINGMENT The Road Ahead by Bill Gates I Answer the questions: EXERCISE 3 3a How was the work of these three people important to modern computer systems? Charles Babbage‚ Claude Shannon‚ John Von Neumann - Charles Babbage is the first man who had an idea to make a machine which can work with numbers‚ and which can do different jobs by following different orders. That was a hundred and fifty years ago. - After the hundred years‚ during which people worked on Babbage’s
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officer of the Microsoft Corporation‚ and a multibillionaire: Bill Gates. CAREER Gates‚ William Henry‚ III (1955- ) was born in Seattle‚ Washington. Gates grew up in a very competitive family. His father‚ William H. Gates II‚ was an attorney. His mother‚ Mary‚ was a University of Washington regent and director of First Interstate Bank. His parents placed him in Lakeside‚ an academic
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This should be posted in every school or kid’s bedroom. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven (11) things they did not and will not learn in school. Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it! Rule 2 : The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60‚000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn
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Bill Gates Speech at Harvard President Bok‚ former President Rudenstine‚ incoming President Faust‚ members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers‚ members of the faculty‚ parents‚ and especially‚ the graduates: I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad‚ I always told you I’d come back and get my degree." I want to thank Harvard for this honour. I’ll be changing my job next year ... and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume. I applaud the graduates
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07/87 10 DECEMBER 2007 RESEARCH PAPER Education and Skills Bill Bill 12 of 2007-08 The Education and Skills Bill introduces a new duty on young people in England to participate in education or training until the age of 18. The Bill follows the green paper Raising Expectations: staying in education and training‚ which described the perceived benefits to individuals‚ the economy and society of young people staying in education or training for longer. Responsibility for support services currently
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Skills to Pay the Bills Teamwork Teamwork is an essential part of workplace success. Like a basketball team working together to set up the perfect shot‚ every team member has a specific role to play in accomplishing tasks on the job. Although it may seem as if one player scored the basket‚ that basket was made possible by many people’s planning‚ coordination‚ and cooperation to get that player the ball. Employers look for people who not only know how to work well with others‚ but who understand
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Out of many successful business entrepreneurs I found Bill Gates‚ the richest men in America quite fascinating and the endeavors he has taken to effect the social change is simply marvellous. I was very curious to know about the life history of Bill Gates. This was also one of the main reason to choose this text. Simply from his childhood he was attracted towards computer and later he became the world’s largest software business Microsoft owner and in the process he came to be one of the richest
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