Melinda Gates Graduation Speech at Duke University

Saying humanity in the abstract will never inspire you in the same way as human beings you meet, Melinda Gates urged Duke University s graduates Sunday to use new technology to connect with others, including people in the developing world whose lives Americans can now touch in a more personal way. Gates recalled attending Duke basketball games and spending long nights writing computer code as a student, long before she became cochair of the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, the world s largest transparent