Collection Description In 1978, Time magazine donated approximately eight hundred works of original cover art to the National Portrait Gallery. In 2000, Gates and his wife established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has donated millions of dollars to science and to such causes as children's health and education. Gates's astute business intuition has made him one of the world's wealthiest people. Now, as Microsoft Corporation's chairman, Gates heads the world's leading computer software firm. Gates next developed the Windows operating system and began designing special applications software for financial analysis and word processing. What emerged was Microsoft's Disk Operating System (MS-DOS), whose tremendous success transformed Microsoft into the largest software company in existence. In 1980, IBM approached Gates about designing a program for a new personal computer it was developing. Object Details Artist Gregory Heisler, born 1954 Sitter William Henry Gates III, born Exhibition Label In 1975, Bill Gates left Harvard at the end of his sophomore year to co-found Microsoft, which began designing and selling computer operating systems. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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