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Nigeria Advances the Fight against Polio

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Life is What You Make It

In his recently published book, Life is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment, Peter Buffett writes about the values he absorbed growing up as one of three children of Warren Buffett and the late Susan Buffett, and the independent path he has pursued as a musician and producer.

Posted 06/18/2010

Imagine Cup: the Olympics of Great Ideas

More than 14,000 students registered for this year’s Imagine Cup competition across the United States. Over the weekend, 80 of those students participated in the U.S. finals, showing how technology can make a difference in solving some of the world’s most difficult challenges. Two grand prize winners from the U.S. competition will now advance to the worldwide finals in Poland in July.

Posted 04/26/2010

Simple Advances, Amazing Benefits in Africa

On a recent trip to Africa, Bill explored innovative and cost-effective initiatives supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that are reducing child mortality and the risk of infection from AIDS, and increasing basic financial services and economic well-being for underserved people.

Posted 03/18/2010

Calling for Energy Technology Innovation

Bill is passionate about the importance of developing new, clean energy sources that are inexpensive and that avoid the negative effects of climate change. On June 10, he and other U.S. business leaders recommended specific steps toward a new national commitment to innovation in energy technology.

Posted 06/15/2010

Inventing the Myhrvold Way

Nathan Myhrvold worked with Bill at Microsoft and went on to start Intellectual Ventures, which is inventing and investing in diverse fields including software, semiconductors, lasers, biotechnology, and medical devices.

Posted 05/21/2010

Recommended Reading on Climate Change

Bill’s interest in new energy technologies, the subject of his February 2010 talk at the TED conference, is directly related to his concern for the world’s 2 billion poorest people, who stand to be hurt the most by climate change.

Posted 04/08/2010

Questions for Bill from Bahia

Casa Familiar Rural makes high school possible for young people on remote farms scattered across a rural region of Bahia, Brazil. Students live at the school one week, then return to their families for two weeks, where they’re visited by school monitors and expected to share what they’ve learned.

Posted 05/05/2010

Live: Bill Discusses Big Challenges with Students

Join Bill this week as he meets with college students around the country and challenges them to think about how to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Watch live webcasts on Monday and Wednesday from UC Berkeley and Harvard, and participate in the conversation on Facebook and Twitter.

Posted 04/21/2010

Teaming with Bill Clinton on Capitol Hill

On March 10, Bill was in Washington, DC, where Melinda French Gates received the Global Trailblazer Award from Vital Voices for her leadership in development. Bill also testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Posted 03/16/2010

We Must Invest in Energy Innovation

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, Bill and Chad Holliday, former chairman and CEO of DuPont, contend that the U.S. government must invest in new, clean energy technologies that tackle climate change and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Posted 04/23/2010

The New Science of Feeding the World

Agricultural biotechnology is controversial but essential, Bill believes, to ease the plight of the 1 billion impoverished people who live with chronic hunger. He reviews a provocative book on the realities of farming today – and its future.

Posted 03/08/2010

A Grand Challenge: Unorthodox Research Ideas

To spur innovative thinking about health solutions for developing countries, Grand Challenges Explorations is making $100,000 grants to fund non-traditional early-stage research projects. Applications for the latest round of grants will be accepted through May 19.

Posted 03/31/2010

Welcome to the Gates Notes

Since leaving my fulltime job at Microsoft to dedicate more time to our foundation, a lot of people have asked me what I'm working on. It often feels like I'm back in school, as I spend a lot of my time learning about issues I'm passionate about.

I'm fortunate because the people I'm working with and learning from are true experts in their fields. I take a lot of notes, and often share them and my own thoughts on the subject with others through email, so I can learn from them and expand the conversation.

I thought it would be interesting to share these conversations more widely with a website, in the hope of getting more people thinking and learning about the issues I think are interesting and important. So, welcome to the Gates Notes.

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