Son> William Henry GateS III, Chief Executive Officer of MicroSoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 GateS iS a billionaire, worth $9.35b and MicroSoft iS worth about $27b. He waS a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the firSt programmerS to oppoSe Software piracy ("Open Letter to HobbyiStS," Computer NoteS, February 3, 1976). (1995-03-02)