Bill Gates
Bill Gates is the head of the software company Microsoft and is one of the world’s wealthiest men. [1]
Note: Good images of Bill Gates that are in the public domain are amazingly hard to find. [2]
A selection of portraits and news photos of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. [3]
He and three fellow students (including future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen) were banned for one summer after they were caught exploiting bugs in a computer operating system to obtain free computer time. [2]
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. [3]
William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, author, and former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. [4]
On a vacation earlier this year, Bill and his family explored the magical Amazon Basin where their activities included climbing trees in the rainforest and swimming with freshwater dolphins. [...] Developing inexpensive, large-scale battery technology is the key to expanding our use of renewable energy sources. [5]
In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000. [...] He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. [4]
1999)… Gates’s personal charitable initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has focused on global health issues, especially on preventing malaria and AIDS in poor countries… For their philanthropic activities, Time magazine named Bill and Melinda Gates (along with rock star and activist Bono) its Persons of the Year for 2005. [1]
Since leaving Microsoft, Gates continues his philanthropy and, among other projects, purchased the video rights to the Messenger Lectures series called The Character of Physical Law, given at Cornell University by Richard Feynman in 1964 and recorded by the BBC. [4]
Bill Gates’ mother-in-law is Mimi Gardner Gates (maiden name Neill), an American art historian and socialite who is Director of the Seattle Art Museum. [2]
Gates oversaw the invention and marketing of the MS-DOS operating system, the Windows operating interface, the Internet Explorer browser, and a multitude of other popular computer products. [1]
Bill and Melinda went to Tanzania recently to talk with scientific researchers, health care workers, and mothers about the effort to control and eradicate malaria. [5]
Sources:
[1] Bill Gates: Biography from Answers.com
[2] Bill Gates - a knol by David Blomstrom - Google
[3] Bill Gates: Chairman
[4] Bill Gates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] The Gates Notes