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Gates family refers to the members of Bill Gates's family and relatives who include: * William Henry Gates, Sr., his father * Mary Maxwell Gates, his mother ** Kristi Gates Blake, his sister :::Blake is a CPA with her own eponymous firm, a published author, and active in charitable causes in Spokane. Husband John Blake is an athletic coach. Two children. ** Libby Gates Armintrout, younger sister :::Active on numerous charitable and academic boards. Husband Doug Armintrout is a real estate developer and investor. Three children. ** Bill Gates ** Melinda French Gates, his wife *** Jennifer Katharine Gates, his daughter born in 1996 *** Rory John Gates, his son born in 1999 *** Phoebe Adele Gates, his daughter born in 2002 * Mimi Gardner Gates, second wife of William Sr. More »
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Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. ''Forbes'' magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, and recent estimates put his net worth near... More »
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, is controlled by its three trustees: Bill Gates,... More »
Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates is a former Microsoft product unit manager of Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Encarta, and Microsoft Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, Chairman, and former Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. They have three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates , Rory John Gates and Phoebe Adele Gates . Melinda was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, where she was valedictorian of her class at the highly esteemed Ursuline Academy of Dallas. More »
Gates family
Gates family refers to the members of Bill Gates's family and relatives who include: * William Henry Gates, Sr., his father * Mary Maxwell Gates, his mother ** Kristi Gates Blake, his sister :::Blake is a CPA with her own eponymous firm, a published author, and active in charitable causes in Spokane. Husband John Blake is an athletic coach. Two children. ** Libby Gates Armintrout, younger sister :::Active on numerous charitable and academic boards. More »
Mary Maxwell Gates
Mary Maxwell Gates served 18 years on the University of Washington board of regents. She was the first female president of King County’s United Way, the first woman to chair the national United Way’s executive committee where she served most notably with IBM's CEO, John Akers, and the first woman on the First Interstate Bank of Washington's board of directors. Mary's son Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft. Gates was born in Seattle, Washington as Mary Maxwell to Adele Thompson and... More »
Mimi Gardner Gates
Mimi Gardner Gates is an American art historian who is Director of the Seattle Art Museum. She married William H. Gates, Sr., father of Bill Gates, in 1996. Formerly Mimi Gardner Neill, Gates has a B.A. in art history from Stanford University, a certificate with honors in Chinese language and culture from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes in Paris, a master's from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in art history from Yale. An old friend of Theresa Heinz Kerry, she is also... More »
Pirates of Silicon Valley
''Pirates of Silicon Valley'' is an unauthorized made-for-television docudrama written and directed by Martyn Burke. Based upon the book, ''Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer'', by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, this film documents the rise of the home computer/personal computer through the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft . The central story of the film begins in the early 1970s and ends with a birthday toast in 1985 to Steve Jobs shortly before he... More »
Bill Gates' house
Bill Gates' house is a large earth-sheltered mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington . The house is noted for its design and the technology it contains. The house is sometimes nicknamed Xanadu 2.0, referring to the Xanadu House. Bill Gates' home is a modern design in the "Pacific lodge" style, with classic features such as a large private library and a domed reading room. The house occupies 50,000 square feet on a 5.15 acre lot. More »
Traf-O-Data
Traf-O-Data was a partnership between Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Paul Gilbert. The partnership was intended to develop a traffic counter that recorded data on punched tape. It was a small computer which was used to help measure traffic flow by using a rubber cord, as well as software to process the data. Traf-O-Data was also the first company founded by Bill Gates. In 1971, a company called Logic Simulation was inventorying the streets in Kent, Washington. More »
Open Letter to Hobbyists
The Open Letter to Hobbyists was an open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant copyright infringement taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software. The letter, dated February 3, 1976, was published in the Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter , and was written in response to an incident at an earlier club meeting. More »
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