Gates Computer Science Building
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Designed to Foster Interaction
The Gates Building is named for Bill Gates, co-founder and CEO of Microsoft Corp., who gave a $6 million gift to the project. It was completed in January 1996 and is the home of the Computer Science Department. The 150,000-square-foot building houses 550 faculty, staff, and students and cost $38M to build and furnish. Robert A. M. Stern Associates of New York and Fong and Chan of San Francisco were the architects, selected following an invited national competition. Rudolph & Sletten of Foster City was the general contractor. There were 47 subcontractors working over a 16-month period.
The Gates Building was designed to promote interaction.
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Stanford University's William Gates Computer Science Building has been made possible by the generous donations of Mr. William H. Gates and the following corporations and individuals:
Allied Signal | Fujitsu Limited | Lockheed Martin Corporation | Michael and Lenore Roberts | Toshiba Corporation |
A T & T Foundation | William R. Hewlett | Mitsubishi Electric Corporation | Rockwell | TRW Foundation |
Digital Equipment Corporation | Hewlett-Packard Company | NEC Corporation | Southern California Edison Company | |
Engineering Venture Fund | J. Erik Jonsson | Pacific Gas and Electric Company | 3M Company |
We would also like to recognize the generosity of the School of Engineering Venture Fund investment volunteers:
William K. Bowes, Jr. | William C. Edwards | Glenn M. Mueller |
Brook H. Byers | Thomas W. Ford | Denise M. O'Leary |
Reid W. Dennis | Franklin P. Johnson, Jr. | Donald T. Valentine |