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Gates will receive an honorary degree—his first from the University since leaving Harvard to start a small computer company in 1975.
When Gates—a denizen of Wigglesworth Hall A-11 during his freshman year—first arrived at Harvard in 1973, few classes succeeded in captivating him in the same way that the computer industry would a few years later.
In 1996, he and Steven A. Ballmer ’77, Microsoft’s current chief executive officer and Gates’s college acquaintance, contributed $25 million to construct the computer science building Maxwell Dworkin.
McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68, who taught Gates as an undergraduate in two courses, described Gates’ philanthropy as “extraordinary.”
And it won’t just transform the production of solar power. It also could make pollution detectors much more sensitive, and it could find its way into home appliances ranging from computer chips to flat-screen televisions.