Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft Corporation, talks with Charlie Rose in Cambridge, Massachusetts about the most promising areas of software research. Rose: "[To Camera:] We're at MIT with Bill Gates. He's been on a tour of a number of colleges talking to students in computer sciences and other academic areas and taking questions. [To Gates:] What brings you to this college tour? What's the purpose?" Gates: "Well, I'm very excited about the breakthroughs that will take place in computer science over the next five years and the next ten years. And it's a paradox to me that people are expecting less, now, than they did, say, in 1999, where there was the bubble, the hype, and all that ... and yet, the really neat stuff, whether it's how you use computers in the home, or in business, or education, that's what's in front of us." Bill Gates, with Charlie Rose, for the hour. It's worth the listen. (I mentioned this last week. The streaming audio is now available. This is a RealAudio link.) |