Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates, a famous drop-out, finally has a Harvard degree for his CV, albeit only an honorary one. According to Reuters:
"We recognize the most illustrious member of the Harvard College class of 1977 never to have graduated from Harvard," said Harvard University Provost Steven Hyman. "It seems high time that his alma mater hand over the diploma."
"I've been waiting for more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree," Gates, 51, told the crowd, which included his father, also named Bill.
Gates met Microsoft's current chief executive Steve Ballmer at Harvard, and they have given their old school plenty of financial support. The Maxwell Dworkin Building, home to Harvard's electrical engineering and computer science departments, was named for their mothers, Mary Maxwell Gates and Beatrice Dworkin Ballmer.
