PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 23, No. 13, Feb. 5, 2004

Bill Gates

Gates to visit campus Feb. 24
Bill Gates, the chief software architect for Microsoft, will be on campus Feb. 24 to talk with students about computer science. He is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. in Foellinger Auditorium. All tickets have been distributed to students through academic units across campus. The talk also will be broadcast; details about when and where will be forthcoming.

Gates intends to share with students his excitement for computer science, engineering and related disciplines. He also plans to provide an overview of work at Microsoft and in university research laboratories to solve some of the most difficult problems in computer science.

His talk at the UI is the first on a three-day, five-campus tour.

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