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Famous Nerds #24 (cont)

William H. Gates iii

  
  • Chairman, Microsoft Corporation
  • Chief Software Architect, Microsoft
  • World's richest man ($80 billion)
  • Contributions to Computer Science
    • Basic? ... (existed in mid-60's)
    • MS-DOS? ... (bought it from Tim Paterson)
    • Window-based GUIs? ... (copied from Apple)
    • Explorer? ... (bought it from Spyglass)
    • the Internet? ... (hah! he wishes)
  • Contributions to CS == ???

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