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Bill Gates' October 2005 Visit to the University of Waterloo

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Only Canadian University on Gates's Fall Tour

Bill Gates addresses UW students.

WATERLOO, Ont. -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will meet students and faculty at the University of Waterloo today as part of a North American tour he is conducting at selected universities and colleges.

His visits are focused on meeting first-year computer science, mathematics and engineering students and selected faculty to share his thoughts on the future of technology and speak on why he thinks careers in computer science are exciting, rewarding and vitally important.

Waterloo is the only Canadian university on the list of six campuses he will visit this fall. He will also speak at the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, as well as Columbia, Princeton and Howard universities.

UW's world-renowned reputation in science and technology and the quality of its students are among the reasons he is visiting Waterloo.(Full text)

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What Bill said about UW (excerpts from Media Roundtable discussion):

“…There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hired the most people from of any university in the world, and Waterloo has always been in the top five every year.”

“Now, the way those things work is Waterloo students here know their friends went to work at Microsoft and say, hey, this is a great place, it's not that far from Canada, and these jobs are interesting and challenging.  That intro video that we did, you know, in some ways it's a key part of the message that we have, and those kids are working on hard problems that have big impact.”

“So just in terms of scale, Waterloo -- scale and focus on computer science, Waterloo stands out, even on a global basis stands out very, very well.”

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