Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Bill Gates. William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect, while also being ...
Bill Joy. William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while ...
Paul Allen. v. t. e. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF) [ a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world, [ 7][ 8] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [ 4]
Astronaut Mike Melvill after his award-winning September 29, 2004 spaceflight. The Ansari XPRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight was the first prize from the foundation. It successfully challenged teams to build private spaceships capable of carrying three people and fly two times within two weeks to open the space frontier.
November 2002; 21 years ago. ( 2002-11) The Vietnamese Wikipedia ( Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.
Khan Academy is an American non-profit [ 3] educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan. [ 1] Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. [ 4] The organization produces short video lessons. [ 5]
Melinda French Gates. Melinda French Gates[ 2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist, former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft, and the ex-wife of its co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates. [ 3] French Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes ...
The name Tết is a shortening of Tết Nguyên Đán, literally written as tết (meaning festivals; only used in festival names) and nguyên đán which means the first day of the year. Both words come from Sino-Vietnamese respectively, 節 (SV: tiết) and 元旦. The word for festival is usually lễ hội, a Sino-Vietnamese word, 禮會.