Bill Gates addresses UW and local high school students in his Farewell Tour.

University of Waterloo - Bill Gates is back. The founder and current chairman of Microsoft is today making his second visit to the University of Waterloo — one of only five university campuses on his current tour and the only one in Canada.


Bill Gates receives applause from the capacity crowd at UW's Humanities Theatre
Photo: Simon Wilson, University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo Communications and Public Affairs reported that Gates was greeted by UW senior administrators, joined a group of academics for a roundtable discussion and talked to the media. The main event was a talk to a group largely made up of students. Close to 200 high schoolers, many of them participants in math competitions run by UW’s Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, joined 475 students from across the UW campus and a few dozen guests for his talk in the Humanities Theatre.

The talk covered topics ranging from software and innovation to entrepreneurship and philanthropy.

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A correction - this was Gates third visit to University of Waterloo. As the photo confirms, he first came to UW in 1989 to speak to members of the Computer Science Club about the early years of Microsoft and its state-of-the-art MS-DOS and OS/2 operating systems. Listen to Audio of 1989 talk

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