Meeting Bill Gates
Posted by Jon Lee in Personal, tags: bill gates, Microsoft, talk, University of Waterloo, Waterloo
Exciting news! I was chosen as one of the lucky few to attend a talk given by Microsoft’s Founder and Chairman, Bill Gates. This coming Thursday, he will be at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Canada) to address students at the school and surrounding areas.
Officially, he will be addressing two topics:
- Magic of software as a driver of innovation, innovation as the lifeblood of the new economy
- Engaging students into mathematics, science and engineering.
Although these topics don’t appeal directly to me, I think the talk should be fun and stimulating. I’m sure he will also address Yahoo! acquisition rumors as well as the exciting new Microsoft Surface computing platform.
Why Waterloo?
Why is he coming to the small town of Waterloo of all places? Well aside from being the most intelligent city in the world, the University of Waterloo has one of the leading mathematics and computer science programs in the world and is also a breeding pit of Microsoft, Google and RIM employees. All three companies have recruiting offices here and hire a large proportion of computer science graduates.
I’m rather excited for the talk this Thursday and will report back with full details! For those interested, there will be a live webcast of the talk as well.
Bill Gates’ Last Talk
I’ve heard rumors that this will be one of his last talks ever. Since announcing his retirement from Microsoft last year, his schedule has definitely been more free. Want proof? Just watch this video:
If anyone has any questions you’d like me to ask him, I’d be glad to do so!
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I’m totally jealous. I was so bummed to hear that this past CES is the last for Gates since I plan on going next year.
Congratulations! What a great opportunity for you! Make the most of it.
And we look forward to your post giving us all the details.
That is very exciting. Back in the early 90s I got to meet him because he used one of our software products as a demo at a tradeshow speech. I find it so interesting to track Microsoft and see how they compete. IF they buy Yahoo, it’s going to be very interesting. To me, their search is now about as good as Google’s but not enough people are using it. If they can get all the Yahoo people into the Microsoft world, it could be very big for them.
wow…. u r very lucky person..i have a dream of meeting him…congratulation once again for that opportunity
Great opportunity. Hope to see the video of the talk in your next post. Info about the Univ of Waterloo was an eye-opener. Had no idea.
Awesome! You are very lucky… ask him why he was arrested when he was young
. There is a mug shot of him on TheSmokinggun.
Congratualtions. I am very jealous, it sounds like a great opportunity. Personally I would go and listen to Bill Gates talk about anything. I cannot wait to hear how it goes.
Congratulations and great video. You can ask him if he plans to unretire!
Wow great. you are really very lucky person and nice video as well.
man… one of my friends went the last time he came to campus… all he did was advertise the ‘new’ Xbox360. =P
why he arrested when he was young? i think he hacked the librarian computer maybe
Bravo
this is great day for you..
Although am not a great fan of Bill Gates I do commend his works but it seems that his into monopolizing the web by buying out yahoo. But anyway your lucky t o be chosen since you will surely learn something from it. Coming from Bill Gates he would surely give out some pointers.
You should sign up for QIK before you go and put a live feed online for those who can’t make it!
Hopefully he more than advertises the xbox! wish I was going.
Do I believe too much in the free software philosophy if I frankly would rather not see him?
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The video is great.Thanks for sharing with us.And congratulation also.
Although I don’t particularly like bill gates or microsoft for that matter, you seem excited and I’m happy for you:)
Congratulations, I heard that Bill Gates is interested in speech recognition and natural language technologies nowadays.
Although people love to hate Bill and MS you can’t deny the amazing career he has had. He built the world’s largest software company from is garage. That is very impressive. I wish I could have met him.
Bill Gates is amazing. The fact that he used to work out of his garage illustrates the passion and vision he had for Microsoft. That kind of passion is what breeds success.
And congratulation also Bill Gates is amazing.
Congratulations, I heard that Bill Gates is interested
Bill Gates loves waterloo because its supposedly the most innovative in canada.
Man you are so luck there a few people that I would like to meet in this world and Bill Gates is on my list.
I met him once at a CES show in an elevator. Seemed like a decent guy. I prefer Mac’s though