Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
Bill Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft is a worldwide leader in personal and business computing software, services and Internet technologies. With revenues of $28.37 billion for the last fiscal year ended June 2002, Microsoft operates in 78 countries and territories and employs more than 50,000 people worldwide.
Gates was born on Oct. 28, 1955, and grew up in Seattle with two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Gates' late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, a trustee of the University of Washington and president of United Way International.
Gates attended public elementary schools and the private Lakeshore Middle School in Seattle. There he discovered his interest in software and began computer programming at age 13.
In 1973, Gates enrolled at Harvard University. He became good friends with Steve Ballmer, now the CEO of Microsoft. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the first microcomputer, the MITS Altair.
In his junior year of college, Gates left Harvard and devoted his full attention to Microsoft, which he founded in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by the belief that the computer would become the most important tool in every home and office, they began developing software for the personal computer. Gates' vision and his foresight in personal computing became the key to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft has continued to develop and improve software technology to make it easier to use, less expensive, and more enjoyable. The company is committed to the long term, as evidenced by its current research and development expenditures of more than $5 billion per fiscal year.
In 1999, Gates authored the book "Future Tense," which shows how computer technology can solve business problems in new ways. The book was published in more than 60 countries and in 25 languages. Future Tense has won wide acclaim and has been listed as a bestseller by The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, topped the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks.
Gates donated all proceeds from both books to nonprofit organizations that support the use of technology for education and skills training.
In addition to his love of computers and software, Gates has an interest in biotechnology. He is on the board of directors of ICOS, a company that specializes in protein matrices and small-molecule therapeutics. He is also an investor in many other biotech companies. Gates also founded Corbis, Inc., which is developing one of the world's largest visual information resources - a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections worldwide. In addition, Gates, along with cell phone pioneer Craig McCaw, has invested in Teledesic, an ambitious program that plans to use hundreds of low-orbit satellites to provide two-way broadband telecommunications with worldwide coverage.
Philanthropy is also important to Gates. He and his wife, Melinda, have donated more than $24 billion to create a fund to support philanthropy in the areas of global health care and education, with the hope that scientific and technological advances in these critical areas will benefit all of humanity as it enters the 21st century. To date, the fund established by Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates, has spent more than $2.5 billion on global health and more than $1.4 billion on improving learning conditions, including the purchase of computer equipment for the Gates Library and Internet training and Internet access for public **** libraries in low-income communities in the United States and Canada. In addition more than $260 million will be spent on building community programs in the Pacific Northwest, and more than $380 million will be spent on special projects and an annual gift distribution campaign.
Gates and Melinda French Gates were married on 1/1/1994. They have three children. Gates loves to read and enjoys playing golf and bridge.
Newton's life
Newton, the great English physicist, was born on December 25, 1642, in the village of Woolthorpe, Lincolnshire, in a farmer's family. 12 years old, he was at the public school in Grantham, he showed interest in experiments and mechanical inventions, and he made his own water clocks, wind mills and sundials. 1661, Newton attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and became an excellent student. In 1661, Newton enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became an outstanding student. In 1669, at the age of 27, he became Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, and was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1672.
In 1685-1687, under the encouragement and sponsorship of the astronomer Halley, Newton published the famous "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", and accomplished the discovery of historical significance - the laws of motion and the law of gravity, which made a significant contribution to the development of modern natural sciences. 1703, he was elected president of the Royal Society. In 1703, he was elected president of the Royal Society. On March 27, 1727, he died in a small village outside London.
Newton made great contributions not only to mechanics but also to other areas. In mathematics, he discovered the binomial theorem and founded calculus; in optics, he conducted experiments on the dispersion of sunlight, proved that white light is compounded by monochromatic light, studied the theory of color, and invented the reflecting telescope.
Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist, known as one of the great mathematicians of history, and Archimedes, Newton, alongside the same reputation.
Li Bai (701--762) was known as Taibai (太白), and his name was Qinglian Jushi (青连居士). Ancestral home in Longxi Chengji (near present-day Gansu water) The first in the late Sui exile in the Western Regions, Li Bai was born in Central Asia, Shattered Leaves. （Li Bai was born in Shattered Leaf, Central Asia (the Chu River basin south of Lake Balkhash, which was under the jurisdiction of Anxi Dudu Fu during the Tang Dynasty). When he was young, he moved with his father to live in Mianzhou Changlong (present-day Jiangyu, Sichuan) in Qinglian Township.
The vast majority of his life was spent in wandering. In the first year of Tianbao (742), he was summoned to Chang'an to serve as a minister of Hanlin on the recommendation of Wu, a Taoist priest. The article style, famous for a while, quite for the Xuanzong appreciate the wrong. Later, because he could not see the face of the powerful and noble, only three years in the capital, he abandoned his post, and still continued his wandering life. In the second year of the Anshi Rebellion, he was angry at the difficulties of the times and joined the staff of King Li Lin of Yong. Unfortunately, King Yong and Su Zong had a struggle for the throne, and after the defeat, Li Bai was implicated and exiled to Yilang (in present-day Guizhou), and was pardoned on the way. In his later years, he drifted around the southeastern part of the country, depending on Li Yangbing, the magistrate of Dangtu County, and soon died of illness.
Li Bai's poems are mainly lyrical. After Qu Yuan, he was the first one who was really able to extensively absorb the rich nutrients from the folk arts and the music folk since Qin, Han and Wei, and concentrated on improving and forming his unique style. He had extraordinary artistic genius and majestic artistic power. He is the most outstanding romantic poet in China after Qu Yuan, known as the "Poetry Immortal", he and Du Pu, also known as "Li Du".
Su Shi is a Chinese writer and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty. His name was Zizhan, and he was known as Dongpo Jushi (东坡居士). He was a native of Meizhou (present-day Meishan City, Sichuan Province) in the Song Dynasty. Father Su Xun, brother Su Zhe are famous ancient literati, known as "three Su". He was a scholar of Jiayou and served as a signing judge of Fengxiang Prefecture, advocating reform of the abusive government. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, he opposed the change of the law, but he made a lot of achievements during his tenure in Mizhou and Xuzhou in fighting against floods and locusts, as well as rescuing the poor and orphans. Later, he was relegated to Huangzhou for "slandering the court". When Emperor Zhezong became a scholar of the Hanlin School, he was sent to know the four states of Hang, Ying, Yang and Ding. At the beginning of Emperor Huizong's reign, he was pardoned and called back. His poems, lyrics and prose all represent the highest achievements of Northern Song literature.
Su Shi's poems are mostly about the difficulties of his career, but they also reflect the hardships of the people and expose the darkness of reality. His poetic style was bold and fresh, and he was especially good at metaphors. He and Huang Tingjian were known as "Su Huang" (苏黄).
Su Shi's words have a wide range of subjects, remembering travel, nostalgia, gifts and answers, farewell, reasoning into the words, and also a breakthrough in the strict legal constraints, which contributed to the development of the word. The masterpieces are "Nian Nujiao", "Song of Water", etc., the pioneer of the luxury school of lyrics, and Xin Qiji and known as "Su Xin".