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Let me explain that following
very brief statements

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by the three of us, the
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and Bill Gates after
me, we will open up

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for question and answer.

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Let me please ask you to keep
topics to what this event is

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about, the celebration of the
35th anniversary of the Lab

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for Computer Science.

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The big news from
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are the celebration and
what the celebration really

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is putting forth--

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first, the generous gift
by Bill and Melinda Gates,

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second the building--

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the William H. Gates building--

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that is being designed
currently by architect Frank

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Gehry, and third,
the launch tomorrow--

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actually later on today
through tomorrow--

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of our new research
project called Oxygen,

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and then finally, what you
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the Capsule of Innovations,
with a race between time

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and technology as to when the
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35 years from now or
when the cryptographic

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puzzle that Professor Rivest
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I'd just like to say that
from the point of view of LCS

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and being director of LCS,
this is an incredible day.

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We are absolutely delighted.

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We have spent all our 35
years creating the future.

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We're happy that we've
been fairly successful.

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But we're even more
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with what we're doing
today about tomorrow.

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With that, I'd like
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to our president, Chuck Vest.

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Thank you, Michael.

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Intellectually, physically,
architecturally MIT

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is entering a period
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change since the immediate
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The Laboratory for
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is going to be at
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of all of this new activity and
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And it is a tremendous
privilege today

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to have been able to
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the magnificent gift by
Bill and Melinda Gates

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through the Gates
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to create the William H.
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in the heart of our campus--

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where it belongs-- for the
Laboratory of Computer Science.

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It's a great privilege to
be part of this undertaking.

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Everybody's doing the big step.

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Well, I'm excited to be
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And MIT has done
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to get computer science as
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And the horizons
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the most interesting
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The synergy between
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done in the educational
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particularly at
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and the commercial
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of the reason why the great
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The cross-fertilization of
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We have researchers that
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people a great deal.

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to help contribute
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My team's done a great job
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to have a wonderful
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some fantastic breakthroughs are
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to have a very positive impact.

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Thank you, Bill.

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Bill, you want to be here.

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I will be moderating this.

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I'll be trying to moderate this.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the
floor is open for questions.

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Yes, please.

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[INAUDIBLE], Mr. Gates.

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I was wondering, a lot of
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is the information era.

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[INAUDIBLE] communication.

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So what research
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to bring the future
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more accessible to consumers?

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You'll hear my talk at 10:45.

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So I'll pass.

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You go ahead.

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Well, there's certainly
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I don't know how many people
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and making it part of
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things like clear type which
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very readable off,
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LCD type screen which would
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where in a press
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would have that and could
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is the power of the system
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That's been the state
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but now people are
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to do a lot more than they've
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And the impact,
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it's been used in
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there are much greater
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Let me add to this
what you will hear you

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I'll just enumerate it
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We are starting work on oxygen,
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sponsored by DOD, DARPA,
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with us, but it's been awarded.

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over the years in
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Oxygen is designed
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of letting people do more by
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It consists of eight
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that are chameleon's,
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to two way radios, radios,
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or in the trunk of the car, or
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that are bigger gorillas
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that the little ones are doing.

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that goes beyond what
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because the internet deals
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and things that rise
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Fourth, speech.

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this is stitching
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to make a broader listening area
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what you say.

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down to what Bill was
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to individual needs.

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More Q&A.

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Mr Gates, I wonder
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I'm sure there are a lot
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on your door, including one just
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very simply, why MIT?

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up there that's named
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which is under construction.

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that they pulled together.

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I've done a few other gifts--

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Stanford University,
Washington, and Cambridge.

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of the fact that I
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will be one of the very few
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to make these breakthroughs.

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record and the things to come.

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You know, it's
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say billions of dollars
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are sort of based on knowing
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What kind of purchasing, what
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people use it.

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I'm certainly an
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those numbers have gone
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they have a tendency
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and the neat things I've
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I mean the internet will
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because first of all connecting
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determines its success.

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and are using that,
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need to do it just
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factors and the difficulty
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they have the kind of
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Let me say that from the
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where human utility is
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the world today may look very
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in the industrial
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that constitute the
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But there's only about one
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The remaining 98%
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And it's not just a case of
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It's also a case of
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History teaches that whenever
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there could be bloodshed.

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Now we have a little
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on this issue of technology
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And I think we've come to the
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by helping out and I'm
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I think that's terribly
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More Q. Yes.

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Is the gift in cash or in stock?

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And if it's in stock, does MIT
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Mr. President?

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[WHISPERING]

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I actually know
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I have to tell you
something really marvelous.

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The Gates gift arrived in
the Office of MIT'S treasure

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as a handwritten cheque.

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Mr. Gates, you mentioned the
issues of privacy and trust,

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and also scarcity
of programmers.

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Can you just
elaborate a little bit

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about some of those concerns?

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you can think of
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for breakthroughs.

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You know, people are
very interested in being

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able to do financial
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and being able to
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that it worked, the person
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was the person they
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And so, using cryptographic
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were pioneered here,
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we're going to be
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monetary trust, contractual
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trust, in a pretty deep
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Privacy is another
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some way is a trickier
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are decisions that
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that are political questions.

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For example, if somebody
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say as a teacher in a
school, you know should they

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be able to access information
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their criminal record.

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purely a political question.

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You know now that
people are recognizing

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the efficiency of databases
that all this information that

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is gathered can be easily
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they're having to think
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the rules should be.

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In a sense for
privacy, we relied

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on the difficulty of getting
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and we're not going
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Is not the right
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have such fantastic
information tools around.

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And this is an issue that the
industry, and particularly

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Microsoft, has really stepped up
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back unless we do it right.

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And it's something
you really have

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to design into the products
and think about the policy.

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So we have a lot of people who
are full time just thinking

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about privacy and how
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In terms of the shortage
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Microsoft has been in hiring
more, looking for great people

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since the company was
founded back in 1975.

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So when we think about how
many projects can we take on,

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what are the new
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it's less the financial
constraints than just

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taking that scarce
resource which

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are these fantastic
developers that we're

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able to hire from
MIT and other places,

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and how we want to assign
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So if you look at
it worldwide, there

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is the demand exceeds supply.

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That's a good thing.

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It means that people are going
to have great opportunities

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who've got those skills.

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Means that from community
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and they're seeing
more people signing up

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for computer science,
and going after

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the incredible opportunities
that are out there.

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We have just about another four
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to return to the program, so.

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One of the major problems
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is the crisis in Kosovo.

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And you have two things there.

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You have identity theft and
you have separated families.

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I wondered if you've
given any thought

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to using databases,
or your skills,

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or your humanitarian interest
to working on this problem.

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Well, last week
the same foundation

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that made the gift
here, made a gift

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to a couple of the key
refugee organizations

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in order to help
them in their work.

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I mean, they're on
the ground there.

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There is a very
interesting question

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about whether they're taking
advantage of technology

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in the best way they can.

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And we have some more people in
the foundation talking to them

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about that.

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Their need in the beginning
was much more basic.

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You know to be able to get
the food, get the transport,

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get things in there, and
the key shortage there

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was just having the
money to go and do that.

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So on top of that, we
would like to make sure

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they use technology as well,
but that really is just

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part of the picture.

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We have thought
about this and we're

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building a virtual
compassion corps which

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is a website on which people
who are willing to proffer

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their help, and people
who need help worldwide

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can meet and service
each other for free.

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Please your question.

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What is the best
way, in the future,

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to avoid a society
of people who have

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and have not, especially
in the inner cities,

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as well as in
developing countries?

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Well you have to
go back and look

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at when societies had
something like the tool

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the internet's becoming, how
has it dealt with they have

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and have not issue in the past.

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And the answer is that,
it's been through schools,

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it's been through
libraries, it's

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been through government budgets,
it's been through philanthropy.

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All of those things
were brought to bear

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to make literacy
something that we almost

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take for granted in
the United States.

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We shouldn't take it for
granted because there's still

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some work to be done there.

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But I think all of
those same factors

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need to be brought
into play here.

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Certainly, getting a state of
the art computer connected up

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to the internet
into every library,

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that was one of the first goals
that one of my foundations

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took on.

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And it's been a
great collaboration

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with the librarians
throughout the country.

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And within the
next several years

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that goal will
actually be achieved.

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But there's so much to be
done here, particularly

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in K through 12 schools to
make sure people get exposure.

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There's some wonderful programs
including giving every student

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their own laptop device.

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And the impact that has been
really even better than people

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expected, but the
amount of resources

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required to do that now
is just way out of reach

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of any of those school budgets.

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So this is a problem that even
in the United States where it's

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the easiest to
solve, we're going

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to be wrestling with
over the next 10 years,

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and hopefully we'll get all
those constituencies involved

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and be pretty far along with
that in the next decade.

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Yet outside the
United States, you

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have to think about
what the priorities are.

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I mean, there, basic health
care is probably more important,

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making sure that
the children don't

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get diseases that are
completely eliminated

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from this part of the world.

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And so, in terms of my
philanthropy and most of it,

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is outside the
United States health

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care has been the real priority.

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Two more questions.

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I'm sorry, but we have
a program to go back to.

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And the standing gentleman.

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Mr. Gates, there was
technology [INAUDIBLE]

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which, on the one
hand, apparently

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made it possible for the accused
perpetrator with an [INAUDIBLE]

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virus to be found.

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But on the other
hand, may have made

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it possible for the
government in Kosovo

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to track down protesters.

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At least, that's been alleged.

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In your own mind how
would you weigh those two

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on the issue of privacy.

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Well, if you create a document.

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You can create
documents anonymously .

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That's part of these tools
allow you to do things

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on a very anonymous basis.

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And when people have
looked at that they

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see two sides of the
coin they see the benefit

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of allowing people to do
things on an anonymous basis,

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and they see the difficulty
that creates for law enforcement

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or others when you get somebody
doing that in a malicious way.

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But the fact is, the tools
if used in a typical way you

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can create things anonymously.

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Let's go to the left section.

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Yes, the gentleman in
the middle, please.

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Yes, Mr. Gates, can you
comment on the antitrust trial,

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your expectations there, and
whether the settlement may not

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being an alleged--

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a monopolist?

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Will you take it, or shall I
run him out of our department?

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Well, certainly, there
are people at Microsoft

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who are in the
legal department who

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are focused on that full time.

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The key thing from
our point of view

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is that we think supporting the
internet and Windows, that's

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a very, very good thing.

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And we think the fact of
having the integrity of Windows

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as a complete product
is a very good thing.

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And so, we just want
to have the freedom

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to innovate and continue to have
a product with great integrity.

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And that's all that we really
stated as key principles.

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So and I don't think
today is the time

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to talk about the lawsuit.

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But I hope people do understand
the two principles that

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are at stake.

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank
you very much for coming.

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We have to return
to our program.

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Press briefing is over.

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Thank you.

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If anybody needs
to file stories,

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there's a working pressroom
next door [INAUDIBLE]..

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