Bill Gates fourth most powerful person in the world in 2012, up from fifth in 2011. In 1994, he was honored as the 20th Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (DFBCS). In 1999, Gates received New York Institute of Technology's President's Medal. Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen, The Netherlands, in 2000; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2002; Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2005; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in April 2007; Harvard University in June 2007; the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, in 2007, and Cambridge University in June 2009. He was also made an honorary
Charlie Rose 2009. In May 2010, Charlie Rose delivered the commencement address at North Carolina State University. On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Rose would return to CBS to help anchor "CBS This Morning," replacing "The Early Show," commencing January 9, 2012, along with co-anchors Gayle King and Erica Hill. Rose has interviewed many celebrities, institutional leaders, and political figures, including Donald Trump (1992); Bill Gates (1996); Steve Jobs (1996); Sean Penn (2008 & 2016), Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (2013), for which he won a second Peabody Award: U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle (2012); U.S. business magnate