Bill+Gates

Bellis, Mary. “Bill Gates - Biography and History.” __Bill Gates was a__ founder and first chairman of Microsoft 26 Jan 2009 


 * Born in Seattle, Washington
 * His legal name is William Henry Gates, III
 * born on October 28th, 1955
 * went to private school
 * began to show interest in computers at the age of 13 years-old
 * He went to Lakeside school
 * When Bill Gates was 15, he and Paul Allen created a device that can analyze the traffic patterns
 * In 1973, he went to Harvard University
 * created first microcomputer called BASIC
 * dropped out of Harvard Univesity in his junior year to create software
 * In 1975, he and Paul Allen started Micro-Soft, but later changed to Microsoft
 * after Microsoft, he worked on a new project called DOS (disk operating system)
 * had a success with DOS
 * many computer makers used DOS as their main operating system for their computers
 * By 1985, he made a first version of Windows and became the leading system and had more than 1,000 employees and $200 million sales
 * developed many software applications including word processor to internet browsers
 * The U.S. Department of Justice sued the Microsoft company in 1998
 * In 1994, he married Melinda French
 * In 2000, the couple established the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which focuses on global health and education issues
 * After his retirement in June 2008, he remained part-time chairman of the board and he putted his money into helping eradicate disease and to improving schools

“Bill Gates Biography.” 1 Feb 2009 http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Gates-Bill.html.
 * he was the second child of the family
 * only son
 * his dad William Henry Gates Jr. was a Seattle attorney
 * his mom Mary Maxwell was a schoolteacher
 * older sister Kristi became his tax accountant
 * younger sister is raising two children in Seattle
 * he participated in sports and had a active childhood
 * spent summers in Bremerton, Washington with his family
 * he had an early interest in computer science and studying them in seventh grade
 * his parents wanted him to have a law career
 * parents chose Lakeside private school to challenge his knowledge
 * Paul Allen and Bill Gates earned twenty thousand dollars in fees for analyizing local traffic patterns
 * Bill Gates was responsible for first computer virus when he was working withe Computer Center's PDP - 10
 * The virus copies itself into other programs and ruins data
 * Gates invaded the national network called Cybernet and damaged the computers
 * when found out, he was not allowed to go near the computers for the rest of his junior year at Lakeside
 * In 1970, made plans for law school and college
 * In 1971, helped Allen write a class scheduling program for their school's computer
 * Allen and Gates wrote programs for the early Apple and Commodore machies
 * Gates received the Howard Vollum Award from Reed College in Portland in 1984

Mirick, John. “William H. Gates III.” __Before Microsoft__ 29 Sept 1996. 1 Feb 2009 .
 * Bill Gates was born shortly after 9pm
 * his family has a rich history in business, politics and community service
 * his great-grandfather was a state legislator and mayor
 * grandfather was a vice president of a national bank
 * father was a prominent lawyer
 * In elementary school, he was much more intelligent than his peer's abilities in almost all subjects, especially math and science
 * many of the Lakeside students were first programmers hired at Microsoft
 * Gates, Allen and few other students stayed at the computer room all day and night learning about what they can about the computers and writing softwares
 * The few students including Gates and Allen turned homeworks in late
 * used up all the school's computer time in few weeks
 * skipped classes to be in the computer room
 * wrote contract with Computer Center Corporation
 * As soon as the school received new computers, he and his friends started exploring the system
 * caused many computers' security system to break
 * altered the recorded computer time they used and the files
 * when found out, Computer Center Corporation punished them from the system for weeks
 * In late 1968, Gates, Allen and two other hackers from Lakeside formed Lakeside Programmers Group
 * wanted to find a way to use their computer skills in the real world
 * first opportunity to do this was with the computer time

“William H. Gates.” __Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft__ Corporation 1 Feb 2009 http://membres.lycos.fr/patrickgelinas/bio_e.html.
 * his late mother was also a chairwoman of United Way International
 * also a University of Washington regent
 * While he was at Harvard University, he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, a current Microsoft's president
 * he wrote a book called The Road Ahead in 1995
 * the book is about his vision of what effect the technology will have in the society
 * the book was in the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks in number one spot
 * published the book in more than 20 countries
 * In China, more than 400,000 copies were sold
 * revised his book to reflect his view that the Internet is one of the important communication method
 * donated his proceeds from the book to a non-profit fund that will support teachers worldwide who are incorporating computers into their classrooms
 * interested in biotechnology
 * founded Corbis Corporation
 * Corbis Corporation is developing digital of art and photography from public and private collections around th globe
 * invested with cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw in Teledesic
 * for his company to work on a plan to launch hundreds of low-orbit satellites around the Earth to provide worldwide two-way communication service
 * Bill Gates donated more than $800 million to charities in the dozen years since Microsoft went public
 * also donated $200 million to the Gates Library Foundation
 * to help libraries get advantage of the new technology in North America
 * he established the Willian H. Gates Foundation, which supports the variety interests of Gates and his family
 * The four focus interests are education, world public health and population, non-profit, civic and arts organizations, and Puget Sound - area capital campaigns