Steve Wozniak, the mastermind behind Apple, casts off his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time. His new book, iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way, provides a firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution with the invention of the first true personal computer, the Apple I.
A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators.
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Steve Wozniak
A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators.
In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for "single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers."
Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak "adopted" the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.
Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless Internet platform.
(born Aug. 11, 1950, San Jose, Calif., U.S.) U.S. computer engineer. He designed electronic devices and games while still in his teens. In the 1970s he worked for Hewlett-Packard. In 1976 he and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer (incorporated in 1977; now Apple Inc.). Badly injured in a 1981 plane crash, he took a leave from Apple, but he returned to work on the revolutionary Macintosh computer. He left Apple for good in 1985, the year he was awarded the National Medal of Technology. He has since taught in elementary school.
I'm sorry guys, but Xerox PARC existed long before Apple did. Xerox PARC was founded in 1970.
Whilst the Xerox Star was indeed released in 1981, it's predecessor the Xerox Alto dates from 1973. It was with the Alto that Xerox pioneered many technologies like the GUI, Ethernet networking, and Object Oriented programming with the Smalltalk language. The Xerox Alto however was not a commercial product.
Apple were not the first to develop a personal computer by any measure. Several other companies were selling personal computers before the Apple I. However of the companies that pioneered personal computing they were by far the most successful, and the only survivor.
Guess the world forgot that xerox created the first individual computer and the UI for the Apple was also a Xerox invention. Does anyone remember the Xerox Star?
Taking nothing from Woz and Steve for making it real and creating a viable company...but give the devil his due...The beginnings were with Xerox, not Apple.
Guess you need to read up on your history. This is WAY before Xerox Parc.
The Xerox PARC UI was the interface for the Lisa and then Macintosh. They also got the mouse from PARC. Apple had a few successful computers before that, including the II and IIe, which really did have a huge impact on computing as we know it, in their own right. They do deserve some props for originality.
Guess the world forgot that xerox created the first individual computer and the UI for the Apple was also a Xerox invention. Does anyone remember the Xerox Star?
Taking nothing from Woz and Steve for making it real and creating a viable company...but give the devil his due...The beginnings were with Xerox, not Apple.
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