William Henry "Bill" Gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born in Seattle, Washington, October 28, 1955) was a prominent business, investor, philanthropist, author from the United States, as well as the former CEO who currently serves as chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He still ranks among the richest people in the world and was ranked first from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008 when he dropped to third. During his career at Microsoft, Gates has served as CEO and chief software architect, and still the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of common shares of the company. He also has written several books. Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, from partner William H. Gates, Sr.. and Mary Maxwell Gates, who is a descendant of the English, German, and Scots-Irish. His family, including the upper middle; his father is a prominent lawyer, his mother served as a member of the board of directors of First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way, and his father, J. W. Maxwell, the president of a national bank. Gates has a sister named Kristi (Kristianne) and a younger sister named Libby. He was the fourth descendant in a family, but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father bears the suffix "II". At the beginning of his life, Gates' parents expect her to a career in law. When Gates was young, his family often attend church congregation. At age 13, he attended Lakeside School, an exclusive prep school in Seattle. When he was in eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school take advantage of the permission of the Lakeside School rummage sale to buy a Model 33 ASR Teletype terminal and part time computer using computer General Electric (GE) for high school students. Gates are interested in using the BASIC programming the GE system, and out of math classes to pursue his desire. He wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allow computer users to play against the computer. Gates was fascinated with these machines and how machines execute software code perfectly. When he thought back on those times, he says, "There is something that fits with the machine." After the Mothers Club donation runs out, he and other students spent time working on several systems, including DEC PDP minicomputers. One such system is a PDP-10 owned by the Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students-Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans-for the summer after they were caught exploiting a bug in the operating system to gain time free computer. Toward the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Instead of using the system via Teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code programs that run on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language. Agreement with CCC continued until 1970, when the company went bankrupt. The following year, Information Sciences, Inc.. employs four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in COBOL language and give them computer time and royalties. Once managers are aware of its programming abilities, Gates wrote the school a computer program to create student classroom schedules. He modified the code so that it is placed in classes dominated by women. He then stated that "hard to pull away from the machine that I use to be able to clearly demonstrate success." At the age of 17 years, Gates and Allen formed a joint venture called Traf-O-Data, to create traffic counters based on the Intel 8008. In early 1973, Bill Gates worked as a congressional aide in the U.S. House of Representatives. Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He obtained a value of 1590 of total 1600 on the SAT exam and enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of 1973. At Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later replaced Gates as CEO of Microsoft. In both, Gates designing an algorithm for sorting pancakes as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems in combinatorics class by Harry Lewis, one of his professors. Gates Solutions holds the record for the fastest version for 30 years; his successor was more rapid one percent. The solution was inaugurated in printed form in collaboration with the Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou. Gates has no plans to learn it as a student at Harvard and spent much time using the school computers. Gates is still communicating with Paul Allen, and she joined him at Honeywell in the summer of 1974. The following year, MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU launched, and Gates and Allen saw the launch as an opportunity to establish his own computer software company. He has discussed this decision with his parents who really support it once they see the enthusiasm Gates to set up the company. After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the creator of the new microcomputer, to inform them that he and his friends are working on a BASIC interpreter for use as a platform. In fact, Gates and Allen did not have a computer and have not written sebarispun Altair BASIC code, they just want to make MITS interested. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them to see the demo, and in the next few weeks they developed an Altair emulator operates on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque was successful and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC was. Paul Allen was hired at MITS, and Gates out of Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and established its first office in Albuquerque. The next year, a hyphen in his name removed, and on 26 November 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" is registered in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs New Mexico. Gates never went back to Harvard to complete his studies. In the early years of Microsoft, all employees have a great responsibility on the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details as well as writing the code. In the first five years, Gates personally review every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of the code to make it look right. In 1980, IBM persuade Microsoft to write a BASIC interpreter for the rest of their personal computers, IBM PC. When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed a character Scientists Inventors - http://www.tokoh-ilmuwan-penemu.com operating system. After adapting the operating system for PC, Microsoft delivered it to IBM PC-DOS in the form of a fee in exchange for $ 50,000. Gates did not offer a transfer of copyright is the operating system, because he believes other software manufacturers will emulate IBM systems. They were right, and sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player in the computer industry. Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981 the company re-incorporate in the state of Microsoft and made Gates President and Chairman of Microsoft. Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company reached an agreement with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS / 2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of this system, creative differences undermine this cooperation. Gates issued an internal memo on May 16, 1991 which announced that the joint OS / 2 ended and shifting their operations to the Microsoft Windows NT kernel development. Much of Gates' role at Microsoft only handles the management and executive duties. Even so, he is an active software developer in its early years, especially in the programming language Microsoft products. He also unofficially became part of the development team since working on the TRS-80 Model 100, and also wrote the code at the end of 1989 were included in the company's products. On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would discontinue its daily work during the next two years to focus on philanthropic activities. He divides his duty to his two successors, namely Ray Ozzie on the daily management and Craig Mundie on the long-term product strategy. Gates was one of the personal computer revolution-known businessman in the world. Although he is admired by many people, some in the industry criticize his business tactics that are considered anti-competitive, an opinion supported by the courts in some cases. In the final stages of his career, Gates did some venture philanthropy by donating a large amount of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded in 2000. Gates stepped down as the highest executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He still serves as chairman and form the chief software architect position. On June 2006, Gates announced that he will work part-time at Microsoft and full time at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually delegate all work to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect and Craig Mundie, the highest official Microsoft research and strategy. Last day of work full time at Microsoft's Gates is June 27, 2008. He still works at Microsoft as non-executive chairman. Since leaving Microsoft, Gates continued filantropinya activity and, among other projects, bought the rights to video serial Messenger Lectures entitled The Character of Physical Law, delivered at Cornell University by Richard Feynman in 1964 and recorded by the BBC. The videos are available to the public online in Microsoft Project Tuva. On April 2010, Gates was invited to visit and deliver lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He asked the students to deal with the problems of the world that awaits them in the future. Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They had three children: Jennifer Katharine Gates (born 1996), Rory John Gates (born 1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (born 2002). Gates family home was a dugout in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina. According to King County public records, in 2006 the total value of property (land and house) Gates family is $ 125 million, and annual property taxes of $ 991,000. Home of 66,000 ft ² (6.100 m²) has a pool area of ​​60-foot (18 m) with an underwater music system, as well as the gymnasium area of ​​2500 ft ² (230 m²) and a dining area of ​​1,000 ft ² (93 m²). Included among Gates' private acquisitions is the Codex Leicester, a collection of writings that Leonardo da Vinci, which Gates bought for $ 30.8 million through the auction in 1994. Gates is also known as a bookworm, and the ceiling of the library in his home filled with carved quotations from The Great Gatsby. He also enjoys playing bridge, tennis, and golf. Gates is ranked first on Forbes 400 list from 1993 to 2007 and ranked number one on the list of The World's Richest People Forbes from 1995 to 2007 and 2009. In 1999, Gates had wealth exceeded $ 101 billion, resulting in the media called it a "centibillionaire". Since 2000, the nominal amount of shares in Microsoft declined due to the falling price of Microsoft stock after the dot-com bubble burst and the multi-billion dollar donations to various charities. In the month of May 2006 interview, Gates commented that he is not the richest person in the world because he does not like attention arising from the title. Gates has several investments outside Microsoft who in 2006 menggajinya of $ 616,667 and bonus of $ 350,000 bringing the total reached $ 966,667. He founded Corbis, a digital image, in 1989. In 2004 he became director of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company headed by his old friend, Warren Buffett. On March 2010, Bill Gates was ranked second as the richest man in the world after losing to Carlos Slim.