Paul Allen, Microsoft Give $50 Million for University of Washington Computer Science School
Allen used to sneak into university's lab to use the computers when he was in high school
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The University of Washington is naming a new computer science and engineering school after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, funded by a $50 million donation from the billionaire and the world's largest software maker.
Allen will give $40 million to fund an endowment, while Microsoft Corp. is providing the rest in honor of the man who started the company with high-school buddy Bill Gates. On Thursday, the school's board of regents approved changing the Seattle-based university's computer science program from a department to its own school, to be called the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.