He dropped out of college after two years to work as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston near Harvard University where Gates was enrolled. Īllen attained a perfect SAT score of 1600 and went to Washington State University, where he joined the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. According to Allen, he and Gates would go "dumpster diving" in their teenage years for computer program code. They then formed Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. In 1972, after Evans' sudden death due to a mountain climbing accident, Gates turned to Allen for help finishing an automated system of Lakeside's entire class scheduling procedure. Gates and Allen joined with Ric Weiland and Gates' childhood best friend and first collaborator, Kent Evans, to form the Lakeside Programming Club and find bugs in Computer Center Corporation's software, in exchange for extra computer time. They also used the laboratory of the Computer Science Department of the University of Washington, doing personal research and computer programming they were banned from the laboratory in 1971 for abuse of their privileges there. From 1965 to 1971 he attended Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle where he befriended Bill Gates, with whom he shared an enthusiasm for computers, and they used Lakeside's Teletype terminal to develop their programming skills on several time-sharing computer systems.
Īllen (left) with Bill Gates at Lakeside School in 1970Īllen was born on January 21, 1953, in Seattle, Washington, to Kenneth Sam Allen and Edna Faye (née Gardner) Allen. He died of septic shock related to the cancer on October 15, 2018, at the age of 65. Īllen was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2009. He received numerous awards and honors in several different professions and was listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World in 20. In 2004, he funded the first crewed private spaceplane with SpaceShipOne. He gave more than $2 billion to causes such as education, wildlife and environmental conservation, the arts, healthcare, community services and more. In 2000 he resigned from his position on Microsoft's board and assumed the post of senior strategy advisor to the company's management team.Īllen was also the founder of the Allen Institutes for Brain Science, Artificial Intelligence and Cell Science, as well as companies like Stratolaunch Systems and Apex Learning. He owned the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association, and was part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer. He had a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio, including technology and media companies, scientific research, real estate holdings, private space flight ventures, and stakes in other sectors. in 1986, a privately held company that managed his various business and philanthropic efforts. He and his sister, Jody Allen, founded Vulcan Inc. Īllen left active operations at Microsoft in early 1983 after a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis, remaining on its board as vice chairman. Allen was ranked as the 44th-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes in 2018, with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death.
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Microsoft became the world's largest personal computer software company. He was best known for co-founding Microsoft with childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Paul Gardner Allen (Janu– October 15, 2018) was an American business magnate, computer programmer, researcher, investor, and philanthropist. Co-founder of Mojave Aerospace Ventures.Founder of Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.Founder of Allen Institute for Cell Science.Founder of Allen Institute for Brain Science.Owner of Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers.
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