威廉(比尔)H.盖茨是全球个人计算机软件的领先供应商-微软公司的创始人、前任董事长和首席执行官,盖茨的资产净值:564 亿美元。
盖茨出生于1955年10月28日,他和两个姐妹一起在西雅图长大。他们的父亲William H.GatesII是西雅图的一名律师。他们的已故母亲Mary Gates曾任中学教师、华盛顿大学的校务委员以及United WayInternational的女主席。
盖茨曾就读于西雅图的公立小学和私立湖滨中学,在那里,他开始了自己个人计算机软件的职业经历,13岁就开始编写计算机程序。
1973年,盖茨进入哈佛大学一年级,在那里他与Steve Ballmer住在同一楼层,后者目前是微软公司总裁。在哈佛期间,盖茨为第一台微型计算机-MITSAltair开发了BASIC编程语言。BASIC语言是John Kemeny和Thomas Kurtz于六十年代中期在Dartmouth学院开发的一种计算机语言。
三年级时,盖茨从哈佛退学,全身心投入其与童年伙伴Paul Allen一起于1975年组建的微软公司。他们深信个人计算机将是每一部办公桌面系统以及每一家庭的非常有价值的工具,并为这一信念所指引,开始为个人计算机开发软件。
盖茨有关个人计算机的远见和洞察力一直是微软公司和软件业界成功的关键。盖茨积极地参与微软公司的关键管理和战略性决策,并在新产品的技术开发中发挥着重要的作用。他的相当一部分时间用于会见客户和通过电子邮件与微软公司的全球雇员保持接触。
在盖茨的领导下,微软的使命是不断地提高和改进软件技术,并使人们更加轻松、更经济有效而且更有趣味地使用计算机。微软公司拥有长期的发展战略,这一点可以从本财政年度26亿美元的研究与开发投资中得到反映。
1995年,盖茨编写了《未来之路书》,在书中,他认为信息技术将带动社会的进步。该书的作者还包括微软公司首席技术官Nathan Myhrvold以及PeterRinearson,它在《纽约时报》的最畅销书排名中连续7周位列第一,并在榜上停留了18周之久。
《未来之路》在20多个国家出版,仅在中国就售出40多万册。 1996年,为充分利用Internet所带来的新的商机,盖茨对微软进行了战略调整,同时,他又全面修订了《未来之路》,在新版本中,他认为交互式网络是人类通讯历史上一个主要里程碑。再版平装本同样荣登最畅销排行榜。盖茨将其稿费收入捐给了一个非盈利基金,用于支持全世界将计算机与教学相结合的教师。
除计算机情结之外,盖茨对生物技术也很感兴趣。他是ICOS公司的董事会成员以及英国Chiroscience集团及其位于华盛顿州的全资子公司-ChiroscienceR&D公司?前身是DarwinMolecular)的股东。他还创立了Corbis公司,该公司正在开发全球最大的可视化信息资源之一,提供全球公共与私人收藏的艺术和摄影作品的综合性数字文档。盖茨还与蜂窝电话的先驱者CraigMcCaw共同投资了Teledesic公司,该公司雄心勃勃地计划发射数百个近地轨道卫星,为全世界提供双向宽带电信服务。
在微软公司上市的12年时间里,盖茨已向慈善机构捐献8亿多美元,包括向盖茨图书馆基金会捐赠2亿美元,以帮助北美的各大图书馆更好地利用信息时代带来的各种新技术。1994年,盖茨创立了William H.Gates基金会,该基金会赞助了一系列盖茨本人及其家庭感兴趣的活动。盖茨捐献的四个重点领域是:教育、世界公共卫生和人口问题、非赢利的公众艺术机构以及一个地区性的投资计划-Puget Sound。
盖茨1994年1月1日与Melinda French Gates结婚,他们有一个孩子Jennifer Katharine Gates,1996年出生。盖茨是一个读书迷,而且很喜欢打高尔夫和桥牌。
William (Bill) H. Gates is the world's leading personal computer software vendors - Microsoft's founder and former chairman and CEO, Gates net asset value: 56.4 billion US dollars.
Gates was born in October 28, 1955, he and his two sisters grew up together in Seattle. Their father, William H. GatesII is a Seattle lawyer. Their late mother, Mary Gates, a former secondary school teachers, members of the Council of the University of Washington and the United WayInternational chairwoman.
Gates has been attending public schools in Seattle and the private Lakeside School, where he began his own computer software professional experience, 13-year-old began to prepare computer programs.
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University a year, where he lived with Steve Ballmer in the same floor, which currently is president of Microsoft. At Harvard, Gates for the first microcomputer-MITSAltair developed BASIC programming language. BASIC language is John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960s developed a computer language.
Three-year, Gates from Harvard drop-out, and threw himself into his childhood partner Paul Allen in 1975 with the formation of Microsoft. They will be the personal computers that every office desktop systems, and each family a very valuable tool, and the guidelines for this belief began developing software for personal computers.
Gates the personal computer vision and insight has been Microsoft and software industry is the key to success. Gates, Microsoft's active participation in key management and strategic decision-making, and in the technical development of new products play an important role. He spent a significant portion of the meeting and via e-mail customers with Microsoft employees worldwide contacts.
Under the leadership of the Gates, Microsoft's mission is to continually enhance and improve software technology, and people have become more relaxed, more cost-effective and more fun to use computers. Microsoft has a long-term development strategy, which can be from the current fiscal year to 2.6 billion US dollars in investment in research and development to be reflected.
In 1995, Gates compiled a "future of the book," In the book, he believes that information technology will promote social progress. The authors of the book also includes Microsoft's chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold and PeterRinearson it, "New York Times" best-selling book in the top ranks first for seven consecutive weeks and remain in the list of 18 weeks.
"The Road Ahead," published in more than 20 countries, only China has more than 40 million copies sold. In 1996, for the full use of the Internet by new opportunities, Gates of Microsoft made strategic adjustments at the same time, he also comprehensive revision of the "future" in the new version, he believed that human interactive communications network is a major milestone in the history. This paperback reprint the same list of the best-selling list. Gates will donate his fee income of a non-profit fund for the support of the world will combine computer and teaching teachers.
Apart from complex computer, Gates is interested in biotechnology. He is a board member of ICOS Corporation and the British and Chiroscience Group in Washington, a wholly owned subsidiary company-ChiroscienceR & D? Formerly known as the DarwinMolecular) shareholders. He also founded Corbis company, which is developing the world's largest resources of visual information, the provision of global public and private collections of art and photography integrated digital files. Gates and cellular telephone pioneer CraigMcCaw a joint investment company Teledesic, the company launched an ambitious program of hundreds of near-earth orbit satellites for the world to provide two-way broadband telecommunications services.
Microsoft listed in the 12-year period, Gates donated to the charity over 800 million US dollars, including the Gates Library Foundation donated 200 million US dollars to help the major libraries in North America and make better use of the information era of new technologies. In 1994, Gates founded the William H. Gates Foundation, the Gates Foundation sponsored a series and their families interested in the activities. Gates donated four key areas: education, public health and population issues the world, the non-profit public arts institutions and a regional investment plan - Puget Sound.
Gates January 1, 1994 and married Melinda French Gates, they have one child, Jennifer Katharine Gates, born in 1996. Gates is a reading fan, and I liked playing golf and bridge.
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Bill Gates is the head of the software company Microsoft and one of the world's wealthiest men. Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in the 1970s, though Allen left the company in 1983. 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. Along the way he gained a reputation for fierce competitiveness and aggressive business savvy. During the 1990s rising Microsoft stock prices made Gates the world's wealthiest man; his wealth has at times exceeded $75 billion, making Gates a popular symbol of the ascendant computer geek of the late 20th century.
Extra credit: Gates married Melinda French, a Microsoft employee, on 1 January 1994. The couple have three children: daughters Jennifer Katharine (b. 1996) and Phoebe Adele (b. 2002) and son Rory John (b. 1999)... Gates's personal chartiable initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has focused on global health issues, especially on preventing malaria and AIDS in poor countries; in 2005, ABC News reported that he had given away over six billion dollars in the previous five years.
这是比尔盖茨的英文简介~~他已经蝉联13年了~~~佩服ing