Bill Gates’ visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison was designed to fire up students for careers in computers. So how did they react?
The biggest buzz was over a device still in development that projects visual images onto a table top and allows them to be pulled into a mini-computer built into a cell phone or other small digital entity. After Gates’ talk, students clustered around the device as a Microsoft engineer explained it in more detail. Gates had done a quick demo of it during his talk, saying that it was still perhaps five years away from coming to the market.