Bill Gates visit to Waterloo today

Today Microsoft founder Bill Gates came to visit and speak at my University. In my opinion, this computer science legend/visionary/genius had a lot of interesting things to say about the future of software and generally the future of Computer Science. It was a very interesting talk and also one where he gave a lot of positive feedback about the students in Computer Science at Waterloo. It was incredibly motivating to have someone of Bill Gates's stature comment so directly on the quality of the education and the degree that I am working so hard to achieve.

In an interview with CTV news, Bill Gates said,

"Waterloo is a special relationship for us. Most years we hire more students out of Waterloo than any university in the world, typically 50 or even more... It's a win-win, and a number of the great advancements Microsoft has made has been people who came to us from Waterloo."

As well as being an incredible motivation, Bill Gates also did some demos of the new XBox 360 and some other pretty awesome new technology that is on the way from Microsoft.

Several times he mentioned that his stop at Waterloo was one of the 6 stops on his trip, and it was his only stop in Canada. It is a huge motivation to me that one of the founders of my entire field of study decided to come to my University and then told us how much our grads have helped shape his company and therefore helped shape a large slice of the Computer Science world. I don't think it gets any more motivating than that. :)

Here's a link to an article about his trip to Waterloo.
CTV News Article and video