The prestigious prize will be awarded this year for the first time at a celebratory event in the USA, the proceeds of which will be dedicated to improving the world's food resources
Founder and Chairman of Microsoft and Chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates will receive the prestigious Einstein Award from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in recognition of his extraordinary contribution. The award will be presented to him at a gala dinner in New York in December 2008.
According to the president of the Hebrew University, Prof. Menachem Magidor, the prestigious prize will be awarded to exceptional people whose work has a proven global impact. "The fact that Bill Gates expressed his consent to receive the award shows his recognition of the academic quality of the Hebrew University," said Prof. Magidor, "The award draws inspiration from the legacy of Albert Einstein, a founding father of the Hebrew University who created a revolution in the understanding of the world. For him, the Hebrew University was an ideal meeting point between Jewish heritage and the universality of the human spirit. This award will commemorate Einstein's multifaceted legacy, and honor some of the most original, creative and effective thinkers of our time. Bill Gates most deserves to receive the award - like Einstein, Gates is a leader whose actions stem from the understanding that alleviating human suffering is an integral part of the progress of the human race.''
Proceeds from the dinner will fund interdisciplinary research at the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the Hebrew University. 100 researchers from the faculty are currently working on studies designed to promote the production of a sufficient amount of nutritious food for the world's growing population, while preserving and protecting the environment. The Smith Faculty of Agricultural Sciences is world-renowned and its researchers conduct pioneering research in developing countries, provide a great deal of agricultural knowledge to students from these countries, and are proud of inventions and innovations such as drip irrigation, tomatoes with a long shelf life and wastewater recycling.
Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates are committed to sustainable agriculture and aid to developing countries through the foundation they established - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Receiving the Einstein Award from the Hebrew University is recognition of Gates' philanthropic work, leadership and technological vision.
The Gates Foundation is leading the way in the fight against world hunger and the problems caused by climate change and population growth in the 21st century. The same issues are at the heart of the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the Hebrew University. Faculty departments are being reorganized to create an interdisciplinary model of four research institutions. Each institution will form teams of researchers who will examine how to increase food supply, develop functional foods rich in nutritional values, promote plant-based treatments for diseases such as malaria, and introduce pioneering technologies for water purification to countries that will face a severe shortage of drinking water in the coming years.
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In the context of studies designed to promote the production of a sufficient amount of nutritious food for the world's growing population, it is also important to note the study that discovered
A gene derived from wild wheat from Israel that improves the nutritional value of the wheat grains and shortens the ripening time of the grains even in cultivated wheat - a defense mechanism against drought
https://www.hayadan.org.il/prize-for-wheat-improvement-1712071/
Beautiful, beautiful, all the best, also to Bill Gates for his combined contribution...also to the donors
Some of the contributors are respectable.
And as Einstein said: page 94, which was opened to me, for this matter...and I quoted
"We all feed and live on the work of others, and we must pay for it honestly,
Not only in the work chosen for our mental satisfaction, but in the work that, accordingly
In the general opinion, serving others. Otherwise, you become a parasite, even
Your needs are few."
- A letter to a person who wanted to study and live on a scholarship, instead of working,
July 28, 1953: Einstein Archive 59-180.
And Lahanan, "Pipsfoni" says, that if in many days he will receive the Einstein prize
He is ready to assign you to your corrective entrepreneurship, because of your honesty.
I plead guilty Roy. But I had to take Vista, since the laptop I bought didn't come with another option.
In general, the system itself is more stable than XP, but very cumbersome, full of bugs and not compatible with some of the older software (not to mention hardware).
Instead of making it easier, everything became more cumbersome and complex.
If we have already gone into evolution, then Microsoft is a clear example of what is called a Frozen accident.
A momentary advantage, in the form of a mother who worked at IBM along with a willingness to steal from Apple gave Microsoft a size advantage that overcame any competition, even though others came out with better solutions.
However, it must be admitted that after Bill Gates found a way to take money from all over the world he also spends time returning a significant percentage of it while redistributing it more fairly than it was distributed in the first place.
Are you a Vista user too, Hanan? And you are another computer teacher...
The truth is, I found a way to explain my use of Vista. I'm just trying to demonstrate my power through the principle of respect. After all, whoever is able to manipulate Vista must be an extraordinary alpha male.
My girlfriend buys it, so there must be something to the principle of respect.
"Gates is a leader whose actions stem from the understanding that alleviating human suffering is an integral part of the progress of the human race" - indeed yes, but if we refer to the suffering caused to humanity (and I am included) as a result of using the "Vista" operating system, perhaps it would be worthwhile to allocate part of the income to finance the alleviation of their suffering Of the oppressed and oppressed, who are forced to make daily use of Microsoft products and stand bravely against terrifying bugs and other shameful things?
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