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Famous Nerds #8 (cont)

    William H. Gates

  • 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)

  • Technical contributions == ???