From April 18 to April 21 in 2007, the founder and chairman of Microsoft Corporation—Bill Gates, paid his 10th visit to China.Gates visited Tsinghua University and Peking University during his China tour.4月19日， 盖茨先生在清华大学发表了主题为《未来之路：在中国共同创新》的演讲，并接受了清华大学颁发的名誉博士学位证书呢。好啦，让我们去实地感受一下吧！
Speech
演讲
The Way Ahead: Innovating Together in China
未来之路：在中国共同创新
By Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation
Honorable President Gu, faculty and students of Tsinghua University,
I’m very honored to be here receiving this degree from Tsinghua, which is one of the top universities in the world.Throughout your 96 years, you not only produced outstanding scientists but also industry and government leaders.
When I visited here in 1997–10 years ago–I was very impreed by the talent, the enthusiasm and the creativity of the students that I met at Tsinghua.And it inspired me to support Microsoft in creating a research lab here in Beijing.That research lab has gone on to incredible succe, led by Harry Shum and joined by top university graduates from this school and others.It’s made huge contributions to Microsoft.In fact if you look at various conferences getting together to discu state-of-the-art iues, the researchers from this lab are making huge contributions.Or if you look at the products, even the most recent Windows Vista or Office 2007, we have substantial innovations in those products.This is an incredible time to be a student at this University.The frontiers of science, including computer science, have never been nearer.The opportunity to improve people’s lives in every way has never been stronger.
We’ve really just scratched the surface of the digital revolution.Yes, we have about a billion personal computers that are connected up to the Internet.And we’re already started to transform the way people, I think, are studying information and sharing information.But there are so much more that we can do.For example, when we think about TV.Today it’s just a paive, non-interactive situation, but that’s in the proce of changing: changing so that you can get any show that you want on the Internet, changing so that it can be interactive so that you can learn as you go home, changing so that the flexibility even to talk and collaborate with others will be part of that experience.
If you think about product design–and products are going to be designed digitally.I spent several hours yesterday at the Agricultural Rice Institute talking with the experts there about how they are using software technology to sequence different rice varieties.And they’re optimistic that they can come up with new varieties that will require le fertilizer, le water and yet increase the yield.And it’s advances like that that really reach out and change the lives not just of those of us who work in technology but people everywhere.In terms of learning, by creating what we call the “student tablet” that will be very inexpensive and the size of a tablet but wirelely connected to the Internet and able to record your voice or recognize your ink handwriting and yet provide learning experiences that are far more effective–and in fact bringing together all of the world’s knowledge on the Internet in a very attractive form.Teachers will be able to see the world’s best lectures, and they’ll be able to see the best materials and for the first time start to share with each other.And so for anyone who wants to learn or wants to teach, it will be a very, very different world.
It’s also an amazing time to this country.What’s going on in China and the growth of its economy with incredible contributions not just within the country but to the global economy as well.For Microsoft, we have a commitment to work with our partners here and make them succeful, to make sure that there are literally hundreds of software start-ups that not only sell in the market here but sell to the entire world.
We also want to make sure that the digital advances are available to all the citizens.And so whether it’s displaced workers or migrants or people who have disabilities–for example blind people–trying to use the computer, there are these special programs that we can put together to make sure that software really isn’t just for the few but really is about empowering everyone.A good example of that is the 170 Hope Cyber Schools where we provided lots of training.
This commitment to think long-term and this commitment to the future is something that the Chinese Government, this University and Microsoft all share.And so the opportunity of working together on new curriculum, faculty exchange: these have strengthened all three of our institutions.
In the last several years, over 2,000 students from 100 Asian universities have worked at our research center here and we’ve awarded over 200 fellowships, so it’s really become a mixing ground for the most talented people in the region.And of course, the university that has the largest representation has been Tsinghua.
Many more researchers are teaching courses, including the course here called “Hot Topics in Computing Research” that I think is a very novel type of course and I think will be a model for many other universities as well.
Today I get a chance to announce some new program between Microsoft and Tsinghua, which is the “Microsoft Distinguished Visiting Profeorship” at Tsinghua.And under this program, our research group will support a world-renowned computer scientist every year to visit the University at Profeor Yao’s Institute for Theoretical Computer Science.And the first recipient of this–a very impreive recipient–is Profeor Frans Kaashoek from MIT.
And so I hope you get a sense of my optimism–optimism about what software can do and the interesting breakthroughs we can all make, opportunities to use that–use it for making businees more effective, making jobs more interesting, designing far better products than ever before but also using it for the handicapped, for education, for outreach so that any student who has an opportunity to connect up to the Internet will have the same type of opportunities as most privileged students.
It’s fantastic for me to be here.You may realize that I’m actually getting an honorary degree from Tsinghua before I get an honorary from Harvard–actually just
le than two months I’ll be at Harvard to get my first degree from the school that I spent several years at.
So these are amazing times and, you know, I think the intersection of what’s going on in China, what’s going on with companies like Microsoft to take this long-term approach and the great academic tradition that is exemplified by the excellence of this University, I think, we can all have a very high expectation.And certainly we’re committed to working with all of you to realize that potential.Thank you!
尊敬的顾校长，清华大学的老师、同学们：
获得清华大学这所世界一流大学的荣誉博士学位，让我感到非常荣幸。清华是所有着上百年历史的名校，这里诞生了很多杰出的科学家、商业和政治领袖。我上一次造访贵校是在1997年，十年以前。当时，贵校学生的才华、热情和创造性给我留下了很深的印象。之后，我决定在中国设立微软研究院。在沈向洋博士的领导下，清华和其他大学的优秀毕业生帮助微软研究院取得了惊人的成功，为公司作出了巨大的贡献。事实上，在各种国际会议上，他们都正作出着巨大的贡献。他们也为微软的新产品如Windows Vista或Office 2007的创新，付出了辛勤的努力。在计算机科学更加迅速发展的今天、在各个领域更快提高人们生活水平的大好机遇中，身为贵校的学生是件激动人心的事。
我们才刚刚开始接触到数字革命的神奇。全世界有十亿的计算机用户连接互连网，他们才刚刚开始通过互连网学习和分享信息。我们可以做更多的事情，例如，今天的电视还是被动的，处于非互动状态，但在未来，你可以从因特网下载节目，回家就能看到，还灵活到通过电视与人交流、互动，共同经历一些活动。
说到产品设计，产品也可以通过数字化来设计。昨天我参观了中国农科院稻米研究所，看到那里的技术人员开始用软件来区分不同的稻谷，为其排序，以后还可以用较少的农药、较少的水分就培育出高产量的优良品种。先进的技术不仅仅惠及我们这些采用该技术的人，还会惠及普罗大众。
学习方面，创造出来的学生平板电脑，相当便宜，只有写字板般大小，这样在教室就可以无线上网，用电脑录音、识别手写的文字。事实上，世界上的所有知识通过互联网，用一种很有趣的方式，使学生无需课本就能实现更有效的学习。老师也可以看到世界各地的优秀教案，他们可以看到最好的素材，并第一时间与他人分享交流，对其他想学习或想当老师的人同样重要。那将是种完完全全不一样的境界。
中国正处在快速发展的时期，其经济发展对本国，乃至对世界都作出越来越大的贡献。微软公司承诺与这里的合作伙伴共同研发，帮助他们成功，确保研发的软件不仅畅销中国，还销往世界各地。
我们还确保所有人都能从先进数字技术中受惠：帮助工人、移民或残疾人，例如盲人用电脑，我们把这些特殊的程序放在一起，设计出来的软件不仅仅惠及少数人，而且真正地帮到所有人。一个很好的例子就是我们为170所希望计算机学校提供了很多培训。
这是个长期合作的承诺，是中国政府、清华大学和微软公司未来共赢的承诺。同样，共享研发新课题和学术交流的机会，这些都加强了我们三者的机构实力。
过去几年里，来自100所亚洲大学的超过2000名学生曾在微软亚洲研究院实习，并有200人获得研究资助，这真是最优秀的人才云集的地方，当然其中最多的来自于贵校。
更多的专家来华讲学，包括在这里开设的课程：“计算机研究的热门领域”，我认为那是很新颖的模式，是其他很多学校的典范。
我还想借此机会宣布，微软公司将在贵校设立“杰出访问学者”项目。在该项目下，微软亚洲研究院每年将邀请一位世界知名的计算机专家到贵校姚期智教授领导的理论计算机科学研究所讲学。第一位获邀来访的是美国麻省理工大学的弗朗斯·凯斯霍德教授。
我希望大家都能像我一样乐观，乐观于软件给我们带来的：有趣的突破、为企业带来更多的效益、使工作更有趣、设计更好的产品使其有助于残疾人、有助于教育，只要可以上网，所有学生就能获得平等的受教育机会。
总之，我今天非常高兴来到贵校，并在接受我的母校哈佛大学颁给我荣誉博士学位之前就成为清华的荣誉博士。事实上，一个多月后，我将在就读过几年的母校哈佛大学接受第一个学位证书。
现在正处于瞬息万变的时代，无论中国如何发展，无论如微软般的那些公司如何发展，微软公司对于中国市场的专注都是长期的。我们对于以学术严谨闻名的贵校有着很高的期望。让我们携手努力，共创信息技术未来的辉煌! 谢谢大家。
