Gates Building

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Dirk Riehle

Home to Stanford's Computer Science Department. Built using a grant by Bill Gates.

A Stanford insider once told me that Bill Gates had hired a lawyer to find out how much other donors had given, in order to slightly overbid them and get the building named after himself. You've got to give it to him, he certainly is smart!

One interesting (though untrue) tidbit is that Eric Roberts, a well-known CS professor, once taught at Harvard and failed Bill Gates. In retaliation, when Bill donated this building, part of the contract stated that Prof. Roberts would never be given an office.

In Stanford newer buildings are usually named after the person or trust that donated the most, like the Clark Center (just across the street from the Gates Computer Science building), named after Jim Clark, founder of ?Sgi and ?Netscape.

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