Bill Gates “A person who shook the world”

1. Bill Gates

“A person who shook the world”
Made by: Gordienko I
PGSGA
18.05.11

2. Contents

Biography
Preconditions for Starting
Microsoft
Personal Life
Recognitions

3. Biography

Kristi
Libby

4. preconditions for starting of Microsoft

first computer program allowed users to play
games against the computer
devised an algorithm for pancake
sorting
made traffic counters based on
the Intel 8008 processor
formed a venture with Paul Allen

5. Personal life

Jennifer
Katharine
Rory John
Phoebe Adele

6. Gate’s house

7. Gate’s house

6,000 m2 estate
a 18 m swimming pool with an
underwater music system
230 m2 gym
93 m2 dining room
large home library with
the Codex Leicester (costs $30.8 million )

8. recognitions

• Forbes list of The World's Richest People
• "centibillionaire“
• one of the 100 people who most influenced the
20th century
• the 8 in the list of
"Heroes of our time“
• the 12 Distinguished Fellow of
• the British Computer Society

9. recognitions

Received honorary doctorates from
Nyenrode Business Universities
Breukelen, the Netherlands
the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Harvard University
the KarolinskaInstitutet, Stockholm
Cambridge University

10. recognitions

Knight Commander of the Order of the
British Empire (KBE)

11. recognitions

• he and his wife were awarded the Order of the
Aztec Eagle
• the 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership
of The Franklin Institute
• the Silver Buffalo Award

12. contacts

http://www.facebook.com/BillGates
http://twitter.com/BillGates
http://www.thegatesnotes.com
E-mail: [email protected]