| Name |
William (Bill) H. Gates |
| Date of birth |
October 28, 1955 |
| Place of birth |
Seattle, Washington |
| Education |
School: Graduated from Lakeside School
in 1973
College: Harvard
University where he developed a version of the programming
language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair |
| Family |
Dad :
William Henry Gates (attorney)
Late Mom :
Mary (School teacher &
chairwoman of United Way International.)
Wife
: Melinda Gates (Ex-employee of Microsoft)
Daughter :
Jennifer
Son :
Rory |
| Married on |
Jan. 1, 1994 |
| Posts held |
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Hobby |
Buying cars, playing
tennis and golf |
| Possession |
A 37,000 square foot
house in suburban Seattle, Two Porsches, a classic Mustang and
a Lewcus |
| Books he wrote |
- The Road Ahead,
published in 1995
- Business @ the Speed of Thought,1999
|
| Other interests |
Biotechnology.
Gates
sits on the board of ICOS, a company that specializes in
protein-based and small-molecule therapeutics
Founded Corbis, which is developing one of
the world's largest resources of visual information
Invested with
cellular telephone pioneer
Craig McCaw in Teledesic,
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| Contributions by
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
$2.5 billion to
organizations working in global health;
$1.4 billion to improve learning
opportunities, including the Gates Library Initiative to bring
computers, Internet Access and training to public libraries in
low-income communities in the United States and Canada;
$260 million to community projects in the
Pacific Northwest;
$381 million to special projects and annual
giving campaigns. |
