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In 2002, Bill and Melinda Gates received the Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged. [269] Gates was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005. [270] He was given the 2006 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award from the Tech Awards. [271]
Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software; Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video; Bing, a line of search engines; and Microsoft ...
Bill Gates, one of the richest and most influential people in the world, says his success comes from a childhood habit that's hard to find in kids today – the ability to focus deeply without ...
Famed billionaire, Bill Gates dishes on how he was able to transfer his success as Microsoft's CEO to other projects in his life. What makes Bill Gates so successful? 7 key habits, practices, and ...
Having developed his first software program at age 13, Bill Gates would go on to revolutionize the world of technology. In doing so, this would make him the richest man in the world for several years.
The Computer Science Group was created in March 1967 as a graduate program under the Graduate School. In 1973, the Department of Computer Science was established as an inter-college unit between the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Engineering. An undergraduate major started accepting students in the 1975–76 academic year.
Looking back on those early years, he characterized his view of success as "very much Microsoft-centric," describing his life during his 20s as "all Microsoft, all the time."
Once a young boy who enjoyed tinkering with computers, Bill Gates now is one of the richest people in the world. According to Forbes, Gates' net worth was at a staggering $128.1 billion as of April...