What I'm Thinking
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
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
Ed Roberts, a very special man and personal computing pioneer passed away on April 1. The following joint statement was issued today by Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen on the death of Ed Roberts.
Posted 04/01/2010
For his lifetime contributions to computer science, the Association for Computing Machinery has honored Chuck Thacker with its prestigious Turing Award. Over four decades, Thacker’s work at Xerox PARC and Microsoft have helped pave the way for the modern personal computer.
Posted 03/09/2010
Conservation and behavior change alone will not get us to the dramatically lower levels of CO2 emissions needed to make a real difference. We also need to focus on developing innovative technologies that produce energy without generating any CO2 emissions at all.
Posted 01/24/2010
What I'm Learning
Entertaining, well-written, and full of surprises and insights, SuperFreakonomics is Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s follow up to Freakonomics.
Posted 02/01/2010
Curious Classroom
Secundaria Técnica #12 Hermosillo, Sonora, is a junior high school that offers a rigorous program with a focus on collaborative projects, academic standards review, and integration of special needs students into regular classes. Here are the questions they asked Bill.
Posted 01/21/2010
Infrequently Asked Questions
Focusing on the needs of the very poorest can deliver long-term benefits to companies, too.
Posted 01/14/2010
Conversations
Quantifying the economic impact of innovation has turned out to be surprisingly difficult. Bill, astrophysicist Lowell Wood, and Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft and founder of Intellectual Ventures, talk about how innovation is overlooked in economic statistics.
Posted 03/09/2010
Speaking with Time managing editor Rick Stengel at the Microsoft CEO Summit in May, Bill explained why he believes it will take large R&D investments by hundreds of companies to develop innovative solutions that will pave the way for new approaches to generating energy.
Posted 01/14/2010
Speaking with Time managing editor Rick Stengel, Bill discussed creative approaches that are enabling companies in the pharmaceutical, food, and telecommunications industries to dedicate some of their expertise to helping the world’s poorest people.
Posted 01/14/2010
