On the 15 / 10 day the tech community received sad news, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died at the 65 years in the USA.
Paul Allen, co-founder with Bill Gates in 1975 of the US computer science group Microsoft, died on Monday at 65 years of cancer, the family said in a statement.
Allen died in the North American city of Seattle, where he was born on January 21, 1953. Like Bill Gates, he devoted much of his life to philanthropy, after leaving the company he helped found in the 1970s, but abandoned early, due to another cancer.
He played an important role in supporting research and development of new technologies that involved artificial intelligence, and even helped revitalize parts of Seattle. Current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he learned a lot from Allen, and that he made indispensable contributions to Microsoft and the technology industry.
Paul Allen met his future partner, Bill Gates, when they both attended high school. Along with a few other colleagues, they were frequent visitors to the computer room, a concept that was new in the 1960 years. At that time, there were still no personal computers.
Young people spent hours learning computer programming in a terminal - computing itself was done by a huge computer at a distance, to which the school paid for access time. Allen was two years older than Gates, but it was this - in his conviction that he was always the smartest person in the room - who took the leading position in a relationship of strength that extended through the years of Microsoft.
Allen and Gates founded Microsoft Corp. in 1975. The big jump of the company occurred in 1980, when IBM decided to bet on personal computers. IBM then asked Microsoft to provide the operating system.
Over the course of several decades, Allen has given more than $ 2 billion to a wide range of interests, including ocean health, the homeless, and the promotion of scientific research.
