{"166671":{"#nid":"166671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bill Gates Gives Virtual Talk to Tech Students","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree years in the making, a new Institute speaker series, Talks@Tech, will host its first event this month with Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Tuesday, Nov. 20, Gates will address Tech students by video from Seattle, speaking for 5-10 minutes before opening the floor for an extended live question-and-answer session.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMr. Gates has such an incredible background in science, technology, humanities\u0026nbsp;and the arts,\u201d said John Miller, the fourth-year industrial and systems engineering major spearheading the Talks@Tech project. \u201cHis experiences founding Microsoft and creating the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will provide insight for the innovative, intellectual and ambitious students at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents planning on attending should \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/talks.gatech.edu\/?q=events\/bill-gates-virtual\u0022\u003ERSVP online\u003C\/a\u003E for the talk, which will begin at 6 p.m. in Room 152 of the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, with overflow in Room 144. Students are encouraged to arrive at 5:45 p.m. for seating. Attendees can submit questions ahead of time \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/talks.gatech.edu\/?q=events\/bill-gates-virtual\u0022\u003Ethrough the comments field of the online event listing\u003C\/a\u003E or ask them during the event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller and his fellow organizers hope to use Talks@Tech to engage the community through distinguished speakers and topical conversations that go beyond lectures, providing a place for discussion-based learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want students to be engaged in conversations that they would otherwise not be able to have,\u201d said Miller.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Talks@Tech initiative was born out of a student-led effort, with faculty and staff providing guidance along the way through a steering committee. The group also hopes to organize and centralize various prestigious speakers around campus at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/talks.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etalks.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGates will talk with students via video from Seattle and hold a live question-and-answer session.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Gates will talk with students via video from Seattle and hold a live question-and-answer session."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-10-30 16:49:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:06","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"166681":{"id":"166681","type":"image","title":"Bill Gates","body":null,"created":"1449178954","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:42:34","changed":"1475894804","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:44","alt":"Bill Gates","file":{"fid":"195590","name":"bio-bill-gates.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bio-bill-gates_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bio-bill-gates_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":28314,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bio-bill-gates_0.jpeg?itok=iYkwz6tn"}}},"media_ids":["166681"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/talks.gatech.edu\/","title":"Talks @ Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/talksattech","title":"Talks@Tech on Twitter"},{"url":"http:\/\/gatech.edu\/calendar\/event.html?nid=160661","title":"Event: A Conversation with Bill Gates"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"46951","name":"bill gates"},{"id":"17391","name":"guest speaker"},{"id":"335","name":"Microsoft"},{"id":"2096","name":"philanthropy"},{"id":"48441","name":"talks@tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:johntmill@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJohn Miller\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ETalks@Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}