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Bill Gates to Finally Receive His Harvard Degree

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-late-than-never dept.

coondoggie writes "It's not like he needs it to beef up his résumé, but the world's richest college dropout finally is getting his degree. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, will speak at Harvard University's commencement ceremony in June and, like all commencement speakers, will receive an honorary degree from the institution. It's hard to guess if Gates, the wealthiest person in the world and co-founder of a company that brought in $44 billion in revenue last year, cares. But the programming whiz who once dropped out of Harvard will likely feel some sense of satisfaction."

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  1. Already has several others by Cocoshimmy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bill Gates has already received honorary degrees from several other institutions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Awards_and _recognition

    Yawn!!!

  2. Re:Rich man's GED by neonmonk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stamp of approval?

    It's an honorary degree, it's more like saying "we recognise you as being prominent in this field and here's the proof."

    Not: "omglolwtf u didnt get a degree heres one now ur one of us!!1 lol"

  3. Re:"programming whiz"? by westlake · · Score: 4, Informative
    Hardly. He was just the whiny wannabe PHB who wanted to get paid. Allen did all the work originally; the rest was ripped from Gary Kildall

    Gates began programming at age thirteen, at fourteen, he was clearing $20,000 a year at this game. In 1973 he co-authored and published a paper a paper on algorithms with computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou. Bill Gates That is moving damn fast and damn far for a "whiny wannabee."

    Microscoft was founded in 1975. In Japan in 1978.

    Microsoft was dominant in programming languages for the microcomputer in 1980 and not an unknown quantity to IBM. Gates promised to deliver a serviceable, low-cost, OS in time for the scheduled launch of the PC. Nothing more. But these were the words IBM needed to hear---and they weren't coming from Kildall.

    You snooze, you lose.