Bill Gates

Why Is Bill Gates Influential?

According to Wikipedia, William Henry Gates III is an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software giant Microsoft, along with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer , president, and chief software architect, while also being its largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He was a major entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Bill Gates's Published Works

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Published Works

Responding to Covid-19 - A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic? (2020) (732)
A robot in every home. (2007) (390)
What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives (1997) (376)
Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999) (355)
Bounds for sorting by prefix reversal (1979) (299)
Business at the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System (1998) (255)
The next epidemic--lessons from Ebola. (2015) (222)
Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy (2000) (138)
Innovation for Pandemics. (2018) (74)
Factors affecting coliform bacteria growth in distribution systems (1982) (68)
The Road Ahead (1960) (35)
An Aztec Herbal: The Classic Codex of 1552 (2000) (27)
Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (2003) (25)
Big History Project (2011) (14)
Will Frankenfood feed the world? (2000) (14)
Meeting Students Where They Are (2016) (14)
Bill Gates Speaks: Wisdom from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur (1998) (13)
The Inside Story of Interactive TV and Microsoft WebTV for Windows (1999) (12)
The Energy Research Imperative (2011) (10)
2012 Annual Letter From Bill Gates (2012) (10)
The Road Ahead (with CD-ROM) (1996) (9)
Beyond macro processing (1987) (7)
Contributions to a knowledge of inheritance in mammals (7)
The Connected Learning Community: Using Technology for Education (1996) (6)
Linked Up for Learning. (1996) (6)
Two Superpowers We Wish We Had (2016) (6)
Strengthening American Competitiveness for the 21st Century (2008) (5)
The Road Ahead: Completely Revised and Up-to-Date (1995) (5)
Abortion and mental health: guidelines for proper scientific conduct ignored (2012) (4)
Medical assistance teams for disasters. (1979) (4)
Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words (2012) (4)
Why I Would Raise Chickens (2016) (4)
Address at Harvard: Commencement, July 7, 2007 (2007) (3)
The 25th birthday of BASIC (1989) (3)
Gene Editing for Good (2018) (3)
A Basic Guide for Curious Minds (2015) (3)
Using the Singularity Research Development Kit (2005) (3)
Immunizing the world. (2000) (2)
The way we give. (2007) (2)
A robot in every home. (cover story) (2007) (2)
Technology for Transformation (2016) (2)
An interview with Bill and Melinda Gates (2013) (2)
Microsoft CD-ROM yearbook (1989) (1)
Health Management Technology goes one on one with Bill Gates. (1995) (1)
Investing in Research, SIGMOD Conference 1998 Keynote Speech, Video (1999) (1)
Personal Computing and the Intra/Internet (1997) (1)
Newsmaker interview. Bill and Melinda Gates talk science. Interview by Leslie Roberts. (2013) (1)
Product distribution goes digital (2000) (1)
Prehospital emergency medical care in Ohio. (1978) (1)
Horizon Scanning: Opportunities Technology Will Bring by 2005 (1995) (1)
Computers in Schools, Today and Tomorrow (1988) (1)
America’s Secret Weapon (2016) (1)
Neil deGrasse Tyson Defends Science in 272 Words (2015) (0)
THE 1964 OUTBREAK OF RUBELLA IN CINCINNATI. (1964) (0)
Business @ The Speed of Though: Menggunakan Sistem Saraf Digital (2009) (0)
PREPARATION OF SODUMPERCARBONATE (2017) (0)
MS-DOS Encyclopedia (versions 1.0 through 3.2): special section on 3.3 (1988) (0)
They looked to the United States with its many centers of innovation: Silicon Valley technology, Hollywood movies, New York finance, Broadway theatre, and others. In the business world, they noted the many entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs, (2014) (0)
Rural respiratory care. (1975) (0)
Saving the world is within our grasp. (2007) (0)
Teaching minority middle-school students to solder (2014) (0)
Life As We Know It (2016) (0)
The Secret Diary of Bill Gates: A Parody (1998) (0)
Publisher Correction: Voices of biotech leaders (2021) (0)
BOUNDS FOR SORTING BY PREFIX REVER ! & ' U , (2001) (0)
Voices of biotech leaders (2021) (0)
Un mundo feliz = A happy world (2006) (0)
Hans Rosling (1948–2017) (2017) (0)
We Haven’t Turned the Corner on AIDS (2016) (0)
Update: What Ever Happened to the Machine That Turns Feces Into Water? (2015) (0)
Protecting Research and a Case for Optimism (2013) (0)
See If You Can Beat My Score on This World IQ Quiz (2015) (0)
PROMINENT BUSINESS LEADER RESEARCH ASIGNMENT TRANSITION WEEK 2012 (2013) (0)
Notes & Comments (PDF) (1974) (0)
My Desert Island Discs (2016) (0)
Bloot will tell us everything (2018) (0)
Personal pressures in medicine. How to recognize and manage your grief reaction. (1987) (0)
2012 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit: Fireside Chat with Steven Chu and Bill Gates (2012) (0)
Wealth for health--a Gates perspective. Interview by Barry Whyte. (2001) (0)
Gates, W., (2000). Business @ the Speed of Thought. (2003) (0)
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Board of Directors Chairman (2004) (0)
Roundtable -- The Water Industry in the World Marketplace (PDF) (1989) (0)
My Visit to Metropolis (2016) (0)
Testcase 2 for erratum workflow functionality in 1.9 (2005) (0)
More Momentum for Clean Energy (2016) (0)
Prediction Markets for Defense Acquisition: The Devil is in the Details (2010) (0)
Bill Gates on Education and the Web. Enter "Generation I.". (2000) (0)
Emergency medicine: the newest specialty. (1979) (0)
The Pottery Industry of Trenton: A Skilled Trade in Transition, 1850–1929 . By Marc Jeffrey Stern · New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994. xiii + 306 pp. Tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $48.00. ISBN 0-8135-2098-3. (1997) (0)
A Strong Voice in the Wilderness (1971) (0)
Three Videos That Explain This Month’s Big Event in New York (2015) (0)
The Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in an Increasingly Globalizing World (2009) (0)
Microsoft and object-oriented programming: or, “Realizing objects in commercial platforms” (1992) (0)
Bill Gates in conversation with Stanford President John Hennessy (2002) (0)