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Bill Gates, Micro-soft Corporation's chief software architect, will speak about "Software Breakthroughs: Solving the Toughest Problems in Computer Science" at Cornell Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 4 p.m. in David L. Call Alumni Auditorium in Kennedy Hall. Tickets are required for the event. They are available free to members of the campus community from the Computer and Information Sciences dean's office at 4134 Upson Hall, the College of Engineering at 242 Carpenter Hall and the Willard Straight Hall ticket office. Cornell IDs must be shown to receive tickets.
Remote video sites will be in Room G73 in Martha Van Rensselaer West, Sage 141 and Ives 105 and 305. Cornell expects the event to be webcast live on university networks. President Jeffrey S. Lehman will introduce Gates.
Gates is expected to demonstrate several Microsoft technologies. He will speak about problems in the computer science field and describe research being done at Microsoft and university and government research facilities around the world to solve those problems. He will also participate in a question-and-answer session with students.
In his junior year, Gates left Harvard University to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool in offices and homes, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its investment of $6.8 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year.
Microsoft employs more than 55,000 people in 85 countries and regions.
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