bill gates

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Bill Gates
    n 1: United States computer entrepreneur whose software company
         made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of
         the United States (born in 1955) [syn: {Gates}, {Bill
         Gates}, {William Henry Gates}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Bill Gates
Gates

   <person> William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of
   {Microsoft}, which he co-founded in 1975 with {Paul Allen}.
   In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and {Microsoft}
   is worth about $27b.  He was a {computer nerd} who dropped out
   of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose
   {software piracy} ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes,
   February 3, 1976).

   (1995-03-02)