[CCID news] on August 1, March 23, according to foreign media reports, after 32 years of absence from his alma mater, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will earn an honorary degree from Harvard University in June this year.
According to the US union, Gates will give a speech at the June this year graduation ceremony of Harvard University in 356th, when Gates will be awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University.
Gates entered Harvard University in 1973 and should have been a graduate of 1977. But Gates dropped out of school in 1975 and established Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen.
Paul Finnegan, head of Harvard University, said in a statement: "We are glad that Harvard students were able to hear Bill Gates give a speech in June 7. His contribution to the global business and technology market, as well as his role model in philanthropy, is enough to make him the focal point on Harvard campus ."