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    personality. In his biography, Bill Gates talent came across all the way when he was admitted to Harvard University, where he first came up with his version of the GW BASIC programming language, which was developed in the 1960s by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz). He was dropped out from the university in 1975, however, with his passion on developing softwares for computers and his believe that computers will be having great use in upcoming decades. His vision became the base of the company…

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    The Success of Eric Pulier Eric is a young person, yet he has accomplished a lot so far in his life. First, he is a distinguished Harvard University graduate who has stood out from the crowd and achieved great things that many have not accomplished. Apart from being a graduate, Eric is an author who has contributed significantly to the writing world, a technologist and a speaker who is audible in public gathering. Eric Pulier has also been generous, and as such he has made some contributions to…

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    and United’s Concourse B. So many problems were discovered that testing had to be halted. Reporters saw piles of disgorged clothes and other personal items lying beneath the Telecar’s tracks. Most of the problems related to errors in the system’s computer software, but mechanical problems also played a part. The software that controlled the delivery of empty cars to the terminal building, for example, often sent the cars back to the waiting pool. Another problem was “jam logic” software, which…

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    Bill Gates Accomplishments

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    People take for granted how far technology has come in the past 40 years. Back then, computers weren’t seen as a consumer product, only as a high end company’s tool for completing complicated equations or automating systems. Bill Gates was the man who headed the shift in software development that led to a lot of the technology we have today. Most people probably already know Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, but what is more interesting is the story behind his fortune. Bill Gates is…

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    Bill Gates Controversy

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    Gates developed software for the personal computer. He founded Microsoft, making him one of the richest people in the world ("William Henry,” p. 232). Gates was born in Seattle on October 28, 1955, and is yet to pass away ("Gates, William," 1999, p. 360). He began exploring computers in middle school and invented the first computer virus ("William Henry,” p. 233). William Gates’s first notable project was a BASIC interpreter for the Altar brand of computers ("William Henry," 2004, p. 233). He…

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    one of the most successful men in the world. He is the founder of the Microsoft company which is worth billions of dollars throughout the donations, and all of the technology. Bill Gates had a very good early life when he started getting to love computer technology as a 7th grader. Later on in life, he became the founder of the company Microsoft, which he has made billions of dollars off of. He has had many good contributions with all of the money that he has earned. Bill as a kid started his…

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    motivating them, the teacher is the most important” (Gates). Mr. Gates scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. He is a college dropout at Harvard College. When he was in college, he chose to major in pre-law. However, he took mathematics and graduate level computer science courses. Microsoft is the world’s largest Personal Computer (PC) software company. Bill Gates is known to be one of the most influential and richest person in the world, estimating net worth of over $80…

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    including music, and word processing. Ms. Lovelace (1815-1852) was a gifted computer programmer and mathematician that was considered to have written instructions for the first computer program in the mid-1800’s (Biography.com, 2017). Grace Hopper (1906-1992) worked with Howard Aiken in developing the Mark I computer at Harvard. She observed that providing the computer an instruction set, that would teach the computer what to do, was a critical aspect of computing. Herself, and a team of women…

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    interested in computer programing. He went to college at Harvard and was trying to get a degree in computer programing. He dropped out of Harvard to get start a business with his childhood friend. He decided to name his business Microsoft. The business was a computer programing company that enabled you to do many things on computers. He has improved computers for a very long time and is still doing that today. He bought the DOS in 1981,It was supposed to improve the computers tremendously.…

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    Admiral Grace Hopper made one of the most significant impacts on the field of Computer Science and programming ever through her work both in and out of the Navy. Hopper’s most memorable and well known contribution she made occurred while she was working at Harvard, and found a moth inside of a Mark II computer, shorting it. This moth is the source of the common term “computer bug” still used today. However, the field of Computer Science would be almost identical today, even if the term “bug”…

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