比尔·盖茨(1955----)微软公司创始人之一、前微软公司主席兼首席软件架构师

比尔·盖茨是微软公司主席和首席软件架构师。

微软公司在个人计算和商业计算软件、服务和互联网技术方面都是全球范围内的领导者。

在2002年6月截止的上个财年，微软公司的收入达283.7亿美元，在78个国家和地区开展业务，全球的员工总数超过51,500人。

盖茨出生于1955年10月28日，和两个姐姐一块在西雅图长大。

他们的父亲， William H. Gates II，是西雅图的律师。

盖茨已故的母亲，Mary Gates，是学校教师，华盛顿大学的董事以及United Way International的主席。

盖茨曾就读于在西雅图的公立小学和私立的湖滨中学。

在那里，他发现了他在软件方面的兴趣并且在13岁时开始了计算机编程。

1973年，盖茨考进了哈佛大学。

在和现在微软的首席执行官史蒂夫·鲍尔默结成了好朋友。

在哈佛的时候，盖茨为第一台微型计算机–MITS Altair开发了BASIC编程语言的一个版本。

在大学三年级的时候，盖茨离开了哈佛并把全部精力投入到他与孩提时代的好友Paul Allen在1975年创建的微软公司中。

在计算机将成为每个家庭、每个办公室中最重要的工具这样信念的引导下，他们开始为个人计算机开发软件。

盖茨的远见卓识以及他对个人计算机的先见之明成为微软和软件产业成功的关键。

在盖茨的领导下，微软持续地发展改进软件技术，使软件更加易用，更省钱和更富于乐趣。

公司致力于长期的发展，从目前每年超过50亿美元的研究开发经费就可看出这一点。

1999年,盖茨撰写了《未来时速:数字神经系统和商务新思维》（Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System）一书，向人们展示了计算机技术是如何以崭新的方式来解决商业问题的。

这本书在超过60个国家以25种语言出版。

《未来时速》赢得了广泛的赞誉，并被《纽约时报》、《今日美国》、《华尔街日报》和 Amazon.com列为畅销书。

盖茨的上一本书，于1995年出版的《The Road Ahead》(未来之路)，曾经连续七周名列《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的榜首。

盖茨把两本书的全部收入捐献给了非赢利组织以支持利用科技进行教育和技能培训。

除了对计算机和软件的热爱之外，盖茨对生物技术也很有兴趣。

他是ICOS公司董事会的一员，这是一家专注于蛋白质基体及小分子疗法的公司。

他也是很多其它生物技术公司的投资人。

盖茨还成立了Corbis公司,它正在研究开发世界最大的可 视信息资源之一–来自于全球公共收藏和私人收藏的艺术及摄影作品综合数字档案。

此外，盖茨还和移动电话先锋Craig McCaw一起投资于Teledesic。

这是一个雄心勃勃的计划，计划使用几百个低轨道卫星来提供覆盖全世界的双向宽带电讯服务。

对于盖茨来说，慈善事业也是非常重要的。

他和他的妻子Melinda已经捐赠了近 58亿美元建立了一个基金，支持在全球医疗健康和教育领域的慈善事业，希望随着人类进入21世纪，这些关键领域的科技进步能使全人类都受益。

到今天为止，盖茨和他的妻子Melinda Gates建立的基金已经将25多亿美元用于了全球的健康事业，将14亿多美元用于改善人们的学习条件，其中包括为盖茨图书馆购置计算机设备、为美国和加拿大的低收入社区的公共图书馆提供互联网培训和互联网访问服务。

此外将超过2.6亿美元用于西北太平洋地区的社区项目建设，将超过3.8亿美元用在一些特 殊项目和每年的礼物发放活动上。

盖茨和Melinda French Gates于1994年1月1日结婚。

他们有三个孩子。

盖茨热爱读书，喜欢打高尔夫球和桥牌。

Bill Gates (1955 ----) co-founder of Microsoft, the former Microsoft chairman and chief software architect

Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect. Microsoft in the personal computing and business computing software, services and Internet technologies are global leaders. In June 2002 ended the last fiscal year, Microsoft's revenues reached 28.37 billion U.S. dollars, in 78 countries and territories, the global total number of employees more than 51,500 people.

Gates was born in October 28, 1955, and two sisters grew up in Seattle one. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle lawyer. Gates late mother, Mary Gates, are school teachers, a director of the University of Washington, as well as the chairman of United Way International.

Gates had been enrolled in public elementary schools in Seattle and the private Lakeside school. There, he found his interest in software and at the age of 13 began a computer programming.

In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University. And now at Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer formed a good friend. At a time when Harvard, Gates for the first-MITS Altair microcomputer BASIC programming language developed a version of.

Third year at university at the time, Gates left Harvard and put all energy into his childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, created in Microsoft. Each computer will be at home, every office of the most important instrument under the guidance of this belief, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates of foresight as well as his personal computer to the foresight of Microsoft and the software industry has become the key to success. Under the leadership of Bill Gates at Microsoft continue to make progress and improve software technology, to make the software more user-friendly, more money and more wealth to the fun. The company is committed to long-term development, from the current more than 5 billion U.S. dollars annually in research and development funding can see this point.

In 1999, Gates wrote "the future of speed: digital nervous system and business new thinking" (Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System) one book to show how computer technology is a new approach to solve commercial problems. This book at more than 60 countries, published in 25 languages. "In the future the speed" has won wide praise, and "The New York Times", "USA Today", "The Wall Street Journal" and Amazon.com as the best-selling book. Gates on a book in 1995 published "The Road Ahead" (Future), once for seven weeks listed in the "New York Times" best-seller lists of the top.

Gates put two of the book all the revenue donated to a non-profit organizations to support the use of technology for education and skills training.

In addition to the love of computers and software, the Gates of biotechnology are also very interested. He is the ICOS board of directors of a company, a focus on matrix proteins and small molecule therapy company. He is also a lot of other biotechnology companies investors. Corbis, Gates has also set up a company, it is the research and development of the world's largest resources of visual information - from the global public collections and private collections of art and photographic works of the integrated digital files. In addition, Gates is also a mobile phone pioneer Craig McCaw together to invest in Teledesic. This is an ambitious plan, plan to use hundreds of low-orbit satellites to provide coverage all over the world the two-way broadband telecommunications services.

For Gates, the charity is also very important. He and his wife Melinda have donated nearly 5.8 billion U.S. dollars set up a fund to support global health and education charity, hope as mankind enters the 21st century, these key areas of scientific and technological progress of all mankind can benefit both . To date, Gates and his wife Melinda Gates fund has been set up more than 25 billion dollars to the cause of global health will be more than 1.4 billion U.S. dollars for the improvement of people's learning conditions, including the purchase of computers for the Gates Library equipment, the United States and Canada for low-income communities of public libraries provide Internet training and Internet access services. In addition to more than 260 million U.S. dollars for the Northwest Pacific region, building community-based projects, more than 380 million U.S. dollars will be spent on some special projects and activities each year on payment of a gift.

Gates and Melinda French Gates in January 1, 1994 Marry. They have three children. Gates love reading, enjoy playing golf and bridge.