• growing up in Santa Clara Valley as it became "Silicon Valley",
• early influences "toward" electronics and computers and stumbling onto what computers actually were,
• the pursuit of computer design as a pastime,
• electronics pranks
• scientific calculators
• Hewlett Packard
• the Homebrew Computer Club,
• design inspirations,
• Apple I - the first low cost computer with a typewriter keyboard paradigm,
• partnership years with Steve Jobs,
• Apple and the many advances that set the tone,
• Apple Computer as a real company -- funding, organization, marketing direction, company personalities,
• the early days of personal computers
• the first killer app: Visicalc, and ,
• Apple and IBM/Microsoft

This annual SCS Distinguished Lecture was established in 1986 by the friends and family of CS Ph.D. student, Hank Wan, and reflects his belief in "the powers of computer science to create a better world."

Speaker Bio:

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.

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