Bill Gates spent the afternoon at UW CSE, visiting labs and speaking to a hanging-room-only crowd.
Bill met with Gaetano Borriello, Yaw Anokwa, Rohit Chaudhri, and Nicola Dell concerning technology for health care in the developing world; with Oren Etzioni, Kevin Clark, and Alan Ritter concerning the future of search; and with Shwetak Patel, Eric Larson, Sidhant Gupta, and Gabe Cohn concerning sustainability sensing.
A web archive of Bill’s talk and Q&A (“The Opportunity Ahead: A Conversation with Bill Gates”) is available here.
GeekWire post (with many photos) here and here. Xconomy post here. Seattle Times here and here. TechFlash on the birthday cupcake here and other topics here. TechCrunch here. PC Magazine here. UW Daily here. Gizmodo here. Los Angeles Times here.
Here’s a nice reminiscence on Bill’s early days as a programmer, scamming computer time at the University of Washington with his high school pal Paul Allen – from the.gates.notes.
Many Bruce Hemingway photographs here.