Scott Aikens
(I've included a summary of the Cambridge-Microsoft story from an American
paper)
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 20:09:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Gates, Hawking Team Up On British Research Center
GATES, HAWKING TEAM UP ON BRITISH RESEARCH CENTER
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has pledged a multimillion-pound grant to set
up a research center in Cambridge, England. The company plans to run the
center as a business and will keep it separate from Cambridge University,
although there will be "very close links" between the two, allowing
Cambridge professors to work at the center part time. The arrangement for
the center, which is considered Microsoft's "big project" for the new
millennium, was brokered by a small group of Cambridge University academics,
including renowned mathematician Stephen Hawking, who taught Microsoft
executive Nathan Myhrvold. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1 Jun 97)
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