EXERCISE 9
Read and translate the text with the dictionary. Write down 5 special questions to the content of the text.
William H.Gates,
Chairman and Chief Software Architect in
Microsoft Corporation
William (Bill) gates is a chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft has revenues of US$ 36.84 billion, and employs more that 55.000 people in 85 countries and regions.
While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer – the MITS Altair.
In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Gates has donated the proceeds of the book to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.
Philanthropy is so important to Gates. He has endowed a foundation with more than $27 billion to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that in the 21 century advances in these critical areas will be available for all people, especially from low-income communities in the United States and Canada.
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