Presiden ketiga Republik Indonesia, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie lahir di Pare-Pare, Sulawesi Selatan, pada 25 Juni 1936. Beliau merupakan anak keempat dari delapan bersaudara, pasangan Alwi Abdul Jalil Habibie dan RA. Tuti Marini Puspowardojo. Habibie yang menikah dengan Hasri Ainun Habibie pada tanggal 12 Mei 1962 ini dikaruniai dua orang putra yaitu Ilham Akbar dan Thareq Kemal.

Masa kecil Habibie dilalui bersama saudara-saudaranya di Pare-Pare, Sulawesi Selatan. Sifat tegas berpegang pada prinsip telah ditunjukkan Habibie sejak kanak-kanak. Habibie yang punya kegemaran menunggang kuda ini, harus kehilangan bapaknya yang meninggal dunia pada 3 September 1950 karena terkena serangan jantung. Tak lama setelah bapaknya meninggal, Habibie pindah ke Bandung untuk menuntut ilmu di Gouvernments Middlebare School. Di SMA, beliau mulai tampak menonjol prestasinya, terutama dalam pelajaran-pelajaran eksakta. Habibie menjadi sosok favorit di sekolahnya.

Setelah tamat SMA di bandung tahun 1954, beliau masuk Universitas Indonesia di Bandung (Sekarang ITB). Beliau mendapat gelar Diploma dari Technische Hochschule, Jerman tahun 1960 yang kemudian mendapatkan gekar Doktor dari tempat yang sama tahun 1965. Habibie menikah tahun 1962, dan dikaruniai dua orang anak. Tahun 1967, menjadi Profesor kehormatan (Guru Besar) pada Institut Teknologi Bandung.

Langkah-langkah Habibie banyak dikagumi, penuh kontroversi, banyak pengagum namun tak sedikit pula yang tak sependapat dengannya. Setiap kali, peraih penghargaan bergengsi Theodore van Karman Award, itu kembali dari “habitat”-nya Jerman, beliau selalu menjadi berita. Habibie hanya setahun kuliah di ITB Bandung, 10 tahun kuliah hingga meraih gelar doktor konstruksi pesawat terbang di Jerman dengan predikat Summa Cum laude. Lalu bekerja di industri pesawat terbang terkemuka MBB Gmbh Jerman, sebelum memenuhi panggilan Presiden Soeharto untuk kembali ke Indonesia.

Di Indonesia, Habibie 20 tahun menjabat Menteri Negara Ristek/Kepala BPPT, memimpin 10 perusahaan BUMN Industri Strategis, dipilih MPR menjadi Wakil Presiden RI, dan disumpah oleh Ketua Mahkamah Agung menjadi Presiden RI menggantikan Soeharto. Soeharto menyerahkan jabatan presiden itu kepada Habibie berdasarkan Pasal 8 UUD 1945. Sampai akhirnya Habibie dipaksa pula lengser akibat refrendum Timor Timur yang memilih merdeka. Pidato Pertanggungjawabannya ditolak MPR RI. Beliau pun kembali menjadi warga negara biasa, kembali pula hijrah bermukim ke Jerman.

Sebagian Karya beliau dalam menghitung dan mendesain beberapa proyek pembuatan pesawat terbang :

* VTOL ( Vertical Take Off & Landing ) Pesawat Angkut DO-31.
* Pesawat Angkut Militer TRANSALL C-130.
* Hansa Jet 320 ( Pesawat Eksekutif ).
* Airbus A-300 ( untuk 300 penumpang )
* CN - 235
* N-250
* dan secara tidak langsung turut berpartisipasi dalam menghitung dan mendesain:
· Helikopter BO-105.
· Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA).
· Beberapa proyek rudal dan satelit.

Sebagian Tanda Jasa/Kehormatannya :

* 1976 - 1998 Direktur Utama PT. Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara/ IPTN.
* 1978 - 1998 Menteri Negara Riset dan Teknologi Republik Indonesia.
* Ketua Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi / BPPT
* 1978 - 1998 Direktur Utama PT. PAL Indonesia (Persero).
* 1978 - 1998 Ketua Otorita Pengembangan Daerah Industri Pulau Batam/ Opdip Batam.
* 1980 - 1998 Ketua Tim Pengembangan Industri Pertahanan Keamanan (Keppres No. 40, 1980)
* 1983 - 1998 Direktur Utama, PT Pindad (Persero).
* 1988 - 1998 Wakil Ketua Dewan Pembina Industri Strategis.
* 1989 - 1998 Ketua Badan Pengelola Industri Strategis/ BPIS.
* 1990 - 1998 Ketua Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim se-lndonesia/lCMI.
* 1993 Koordinator Presidium Harian, Dewan Pembina Golkar.
* 10 Maret - 20 Mei 1998 Wakil Presiden Republik Indonesia
* 21 Mei 1998 - Oktober 1999 Presiden Republik Indonesia

ref : http://kepustakaan-presiden.pnri.go.id
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Bill Gates Biografi

William Henry Gates III or better known as Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates is the second child of three brothers. His father William Henry Gates was a corporate lawyer who had many relations in the city. While his mother Mary Maxwell, an employee of First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell and members of the National United Way.

Bill's a smart boy, but he's too full of spirit and tend to often have difficulty in school. When she was eleven years old, her parents decided to make a change in him and send him to Lakeside School, an elementary school special for a prestigious boys. At Lakeside that in 1968 Bill Gates for the first time introduced the world of computers, in the form of a teletype machine that connected to the phone to a computer time sharing.

He was quick with BASIC, a computer programming language, and hackers along with its own study at the Lakeside, he spent time with hours and hours writing programs, doing games, and generally learn a lot about computers. "He was an eccentric," as one of his teachers to give Gates the surname. Bill Gates was taking classes at Harvard University in Cambridge, beginning in 1975. There he met with Paul Allen at school together. With Paul Allen, Bill Gates continues to develop his talents in the field of computer programming. However, Bill Gates decided to leave (drop out) to donate wakunya to Microsoft.

Work Background

Through his hard efforts, the company that he founded called the Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates became a success and soar to become a millionaire. In 1990 Bill Gates was successfully released a very successful operating system in the world market. However, Bill Gates also got a bad reputation in his career. Not just once, even Bill Gates made several errors in the software business. In 1990 Bill Gates received demands from the United States Justice Department on charges of Gates has a monopoly on small firms. And once again Bill Gates was tripped by the laws of business laws of the United States in 1999. In 2000, Bill Gates retired from his position as Chief Executive Officer and he chose to return to his old profession that he loved the Head of Research and Development in perusahaanya own Software, Microsoft Corp. And in early 2008, Bill Gates decided to resign from Microsoft's management and concentrated on charity work through the charitable foundation she founded, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Personal Life

Peribadinya life, Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have three children, Jennifer Katherine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002). With his wife, Bill Gates has founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is a Social Foundations of attention pederita AIDS, scholarships for universities and concern for the third world. The critics say this is proof of the anger many people about monopolistic practices, corporate superpower and several crimes he has done, but some people close to Bill Gates said that he indeed has long planned to donate most of his wealth. In 1999 the Washington Post reported that "Gates has stated that he decided to donate $ 5 billion to their organizations. It's certainly not surprising because, according to a survey of Forbes Magazine, Bill Gates has always been the richest man in the world in succession during the years 1996-2004 with the amount of $ 90 Billion. With determination, hard struggle and now Bill Gates has reached his goal. To achieve the success necessary sacrifice and struggle hard, but hard work and unyielding attitude of Bill Gates has produced results that he can enjoy this moment .

FACT FACT PROPERTY BILL GATES

Want to know how rich Bill Gates does it? These are facts ..

1. Bill Gates generate U.S. $ 250 every second, it's about U.S. $ 20 million a day and U.S. $ 7.8 billion a year!

2. If he drops to U.S. $ 1,000, he did not even bother to pick it back because of time equal to four seconds to take, he had earned the same amount.

3. U.S. national debt is around U.S. $ 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates would pay the debt by himself, he will finish in less than 10 years.

4. He can donate U.S. $ 15 to everyone in the world but still be able to leave a U.S. $ 5 million as an allowance.

5. Michael Jordan is the most expensive-paid athlete in America. If he does not eat and drink and still leave intact a year income of U.S. $ 30 million, he'll have to wait 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates now.

6. If Bill Gates were a country, he will become the world's richest country to number 37 or so 13th-largest U.S. company, even more than IBM's.

7. If all the money Bill Gates swapped into floating U.S. $ 1, we can arrange a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years and uses a total of 713 Boeing 747 planes to transport all the money.

8. Bill Gates is now 40 years old. If we assume that he can live 35 years longer then he has to spend U.S. $ 6.78 million per day to spend all his money before he went to heaven.

9. But! If Microsoft Windows users can claim U.S. $ 1 for every time the computer hangs for Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years time!

Source:

- Www.wikipedia.com Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone Indonesia

- Http://cyberions.blogspot.com/2009/11/fakta-tentang-kekayaan-bill-gates.html