Subject Week: “4 April – 50 Years since the Founding of Microsoft”

Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III,  (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who cofounded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company.

Gates wrote his first software program at the age of 13. In high school he helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s payroll system and founded Traf-O-Data, a company that sold traffic-counting systems to local governments. In 1975 Gates, then a sophomore at Harvard University, joined his hometown friend Paul G. Allen to develop software for the first microcomputers. They began by adapting BASIC, a popular programming language used on large computers, for use on microcomputers. With the success of this project, Gates left Harvard during his junior year and, with Allen, formed Microsoft.

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Print Books:

1. Arnold, F. (2012). What makes great leaders great: management lessons from icons who changed the world. McGraw-Hill. HD57.7 .A765 2012
2. Ceruzzi, P. E. (2012). Computing: a concise history. Mass.: MIT Press. QA76.17 .C467 2012
3. Gates, M. (2019). The moment of lift: how empowering women changes the world. New York : Flatiron Books. HQ1155 .G38 2019
4. Isaacson, W. (2014). The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution. Simon & Schuster. QA76.2.A2 I87 2014
5. Klein, M. (2003). The change makers : from Carnegie to Gates : how the great entrepreneurs transformed ideas into industries. Times Books. HB615 .K6137 2003
6. McCullough, B. (2018). How the Internet happened : from Netscape to the iPhone. Liveright Publishing Corporation. TK5105.875.I57 M38 2018
7. Phillips, P. (2018). Giants: the global power elite. Seven Stories Press. HC79.W4 P495 2018
8. Rubenstein, D. M. (2020). How to lead: wisdom from the world’s greatest CEOs, founders, and game changers. NY: Simon & Schuster. HD57.7 .R823 2020
9. Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform capitalism. Malden, MA: Polity. HC79.I55 S685 2017
10. Tarnoff, B. (2022). Internet for the people: the fight for our digital future. New York: Verso. HD9696.8.U62 T37 2022

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E-Books:

1. Des Dearlove. (2010). The Unauthorized Guide To Doing Business the Bill Gates Way : 10 Secrets of the World’s Richest Business Leader. Capstone. EBSCOhost.
2. Laakmann, M. G. (2014). Cracking the tech career : Insider advice on landing a job at google, microsoft, apple, or any top tech company. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. ProQuest Central.
3. Leibtag, A. (2013). The digital crown : Winning at content on the web. Elsevier Science & Technology. ProQuest Central.
4. Phelps, M., Kline, D., & Phelps (2009). Burning the ships : Transforming your company’s culture through intellectual property strategy. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. ProQuest Central.
5. White, G. (2022). The mystery of collective intelligence. Ethics International Press Limited. ProQuest Central.