4. Bill Gates
• Founder of Microsoft
• Co-founded Microsoft
in 1975 with boyhood
friend Paul Allen
• Wrote Microsoft's first
program, BASIC for the
MITS Altair, in 1975
5. • Led Microsoft to become one of the world's
largest corporations, helping the software
industry rival established industries in
economic influence and power
• Since 2000, Gates has given away about
£15.5bn, a third of his wealth, to charity. Such
is his fame in the world outside
computing,fictional Gates characters have
appeared in cartoons including the
Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy.
6. Michael Dell
• Founder of DELL COMPUTER
• In 1999, Michael and Susan
Dell established the Michael
and Susan Dell
Foundation, which focuses
on, among other
causes, grants, urban
education, childhood health
and family economic stability.
The foundation has provided
$65 million in grants to three
health-related organizations
associated with the University
of Texas.
7. • By 2010, the foundation had committed more than $650
million to children's issues and community initiatives in
the United States, India and South AfricaToday the
foundation has over $466 million assets under
management.
• In 2002, Dell received an honorary doctorate in Economic
Science from the University of Limerick in honor of his
investment in Ireland and the local community and for
his support for educational initiatives.
• In 2012, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
committed $50 million for medical education. The Dell
School of Medicine at the University of Texas at Austin
will begin enrolling students in 2016.
8. JAVA
• James Arthur
Gosling, (born May
19, 1955) is a Canadian
computer scientist, best
known as the father of
the Java programming
language.
• For his achievement he
was elected to Foreign
Associate member of the
United States National
Academy of Engineering.
9. • He has also made major contributions to several
other software systems, such as NeWS and Gosling
Emacs. He co-wrote the "bundle" program, a utility
thoroughly detailed in Brian Kernighan and Rob
Pike's book The Unix Programming Environment.
