William Gates Building, Cambridge

at , Cambridge , CB3 0FD United Kingdom

1. Education
2. Local Business

Description

The William Gates Building, or WGB, is a square building that houses the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, on the University's West Cambridge site in JJ Thomson Avenue south of the Madingley Road in Cambridge, England. Construction on the building began in 1999 and was completed in 2001 at a cost of £20 million. It was named after the grandfather of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided 50% of the money for the building's construction.Building features The glass wall in the fishbowl is decorated with the source code of the original EDSAC program The floor in the street has tiles that have the binary, UTF-8 representation of 'Computer Laboratory — AD 2001 — ☺' The fishbowl contains the original door to the Mathematical laboratory

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Summary

William Gates Building, Cambridge is Cambridge based place and this enity listed in Education category. CB3 0FD. Contact phone number of William Gates Building, Cambridge: 01223 763500