Melinda Gates. Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964)[3] is an American businesswoman and philanthropist.
She is the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the wife of Bill Gates. She worked at Microsoft, where she was project manager for Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Encarta and Expedia. Personal life[edit] Gates was born in 1964 in Dallas, Texas. She was the second of four children born to Raymond Joseph French Jr., an engineer, and Elaine Agnes Amerland, a homemaker. Duke University. Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.[6] In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James B. Duke established The Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke. Duke's research expenditures in the 2010 fiscal year topped $983 million, the fifth largest figure in the nation.[7] Competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Duke's athletic teams – known as the Blue Devils— have captured 13 team national championships, including four by its high profile men's basketball team.[8][9] In 2013, Duke was ranked 17th and 23rd in the world by Times Higher Education World University Rankings[10] and QS World University Rankings, respectively, while tying for 7th in the U.S. in the 2014 U.S.
News & World Report "Best National Universities Rankings. James B. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Catholic Church. Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal works of mercy.
The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and medical services in the world.[16] Catholic spiritual teaching emphasises spread of the Gospel message and growth in spiritual discipline through the spiritual works of mercy. The Church holds the Blessed Virgin Mary, as mother of Jesus Christ, in special regard and has defined four specific Marian dogmatic teachings, namely her Immaculate Conception without original sin, her status as the Mother of God,[17] her perpetual virginity and her bodily Assumption into Heaven at the end of her earthly life.[18][note 5] Numerous Marian devotions are also practised. Name[edit] Bill Gates. William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.[3][4] Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.
He is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people[5] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009—excluding 2008, when he was ranked third;[1] in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the world's second wealthiest person.[6][7] According to the Bloomberg Billionaires List, Gates became the world's richest person again in 2013, a position that he last held on the list in 2007.[8] As of April 2014, he is the richest.[1] During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4 percent of the common stock. [a] He has also authored and co-authored several books. Microsoft. Coordinates: History 1972–83: Founding and company beginnings Paul Allen (l.) and Bill Gates (r.) on October 19, 1981, in a sea of PCs after signing a pivotal contract.
IBM called Microsoft in July 1980 inquiring about programming languages for its upcoming PC line;[9]:228 after failed negotiations with another company, IBM gave Microsoft a contract to develop the OS for the new line of PCs.[10] Microsoft entered the OS business in 1980 with its own version of Unix, called Xenix.[14] However, it was MS-DOS that solidified the company's dominance. 1984–94: Windows and Office In 1990, Microsoft introduced its office suite, Microsoft Office. On July 27, 1994, the U.S. 1995–2005: Internet and the 32-bit era Bill Gates giving his deposition in 1998 for the United States v. 2006–10: Windows Vista, mobile, and Windows 7 2007 also saw the creation of a multi-core unit at Microsoft, as they followed in the steps of server companies such as Sun and IBM.[45]