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Steve Wozniak
Wozniak in 2017
Born	Stephen Gary Wozniak (1950-08-11) August 11, 1950 (age 74) San Jose, California, U.S.
Other names	\n Woz \n Berkeley Blue (hacking alias)^[1] \n Rocky Clark (student alias)^[2] \n
Citizenship	United States Serbia
Education	University of Colorado Boulder (expelled) De Anza College (attended) University of California, Berkeley (BSE)^[3]
Occupations	Entrepreneur electrical engineer programmer inventor philanthropist investor
Years active	1971\u2013present
Known for	\n Pioneer of the personal computer revolution with Steve Jobs \n Co-founder of Apple Inc. \n Apple I creator \n Apple II co-creator and lead developer \n Macintosh co-creator and co-developer \n
Spouses	\n \n Alice Robertson \n (m. 1976; div. 1980) \n \n Candice Clark \n (m. 1981; div. 1987) \n \n Suzanne Mulkern \n (m. 1990; div. 2004) \n \n Janet Hill (m. 2008) \n
Children	3
Call sign	ex-WA6BND (ex-WV6VLY)
Website	woz.org

Stephen Gary Wozniak (/\u02c8w\u0252zni\u00e6k/; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname Woz, is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Computer with his early business partner Steve Jobs. Through his work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he is widely recognized as one of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution.^[4]\n

In 1975, Wozniak started developing the Apple I^[5]^: 150 into the computer that launched Apple when he and Jobs first began marketing it the following year. He was the primary designer of the Apple II, introduced in 1977, known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers,^[6] while Jobs oversaw the development of its foam-molded plastic case and early Apple employee Rod Holt developed its switching power supply.^[7] \n

With human\u2013computer interface expert Jef Raskin, Wozniak had a major influence over the initial development of the original Macintosh concepts from 1979 to 1981, when Jobs took over the project following Wozniak's brief departure from the company due to a traumatic airplane accident.^[8]^[3] After permanently leaving Apple in 1985, Wozniak founded CL 9 and created the first programmable universal remote, released in 1987. He then pursued several other businesses and philanthropic ventures throughout his career, focusing largely on technology in K\u201312 schools.^[3]\n

As of June 2024, Wozniak has remained an employee of Apple in a ceremonial capacity since stepping down in 1985.^[9]^[10] In recent years, he has helped fund multiple entrepreneurial efforts dealing in areas such as GPS and telecommunications, flash memory, technology and pop culture conventions, technical education, ecology, satellites and more.\n

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v t e Steve Wozniak
Products and projects	\n Apple I \n Apple II (II series) \n Apple Desktop Bus \n Breakout \n Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose \n CL 9 CORE \n Disk II \n Electronic Frontier Foundation \n iWoz \n Macintosh 128K \n Silicon Valley Comic Con \n US Festival \n
Companies	\n Acquicor Technology (co-founder) \n Apple Inc. (co-founder) \n CL 9 (founder) \n Fusion-io, Inc. (chief scientist) \n Wheels of Zeus (founder) \n Woz U (founder) \n
Awards	\n Honors and awards for Steve Wozniak \n
Films	\n Triumph of the Nerds (1996) \n Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) \n The Secret History of Hacking (2001) \n Jobs (2013) \n Steve Jobs (2015) \n
TV appearances	\n Code Monkeys season 1 (2007) \n Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List season 4 (2008) \n Dancing with the Stars season 8 (2009) \n \"The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification\" (The Big Bang Theory, 2010) \n John Wants Answers season 4 (2013) \n
Related	\n Apple IIGS with limited edition signed case \n Blue box \n Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984 book) \n History of Apple Inc. \n Homebrew Computer Club \n Phreaking \n Segway polo \n Steve Jobs \n

v t e Key figures in the history of Apple Inc.
Founders	\n Steve Jobs \n Steve Wozniak \n Ronald Wayne \n
CEOs	\n Michael Scott (1977\u20131981) \n Mike Markkula (1981\u20131983) \n John Sculley (1983\u20131993) \n Michael Spindler (1993\u20131996) \n Gil Amelio (1996\u20131997) \n Steve Jobs (1997\u20132011) \n Tim Cook (2011\u2013present) \n
Current employees	\n Katherine L. Adams \n Tim Cook \n Eddy Cue \n Chris Espinosa \n Craig Federighi \n Dominic Giampaolo \n John Giannandrea \n Lisa P. Jackson \n Greg Joswiak \n Luca Maestri \n Bob Mansfield \n Dan Riccio \n Phil Schiller \n Johny Srouji \n John Ternus \n Bud Tribble \n Jeff Williams \n Steve Wozniak \n
Former employees	\n Gil Amelio \n Angela Ahrendts \n Fred D. Anderson \n Bill Atkinson \n Susan Barnes \n Chrisann Brennan \n Steve Capps \n Satjiv S. Chahil \n George Crow \n Tony Fadell \n Bill Fernandez \n Scott Forstall \n Jean-Louis Gass\u00e9e \n Ellen Hancock \n Nancy R. Heinen \n Andy Hertzfeld \n Joanna Hoffman \n Rod Holt \n Bruce Horn \n Jony Ive \n Steve Jobs \n Ron Johnson \n Susan Kare \n Guy Kawasaki \n Alan Kay \n Daniel Kottke \n Chris Lattner \n Guerrino De Luca \n Mike Markkula \n David Nagel \n Ike Nassi \n Don Norman \n Peter Oppenheimer \n Rich Page \n Mark Papermaster \n Jef Raskin \n Jon Rubinstein \n Michael Scott \n John Sculley \n Bertrand Serlet \n Bruce Sewell \n Burrell Smith \n Michael Spindler \n Sina Tamaddon \n Larry Tesler \n Avie Tevanian \n Ronald Wayne \n Del Yocam \n

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Early life

Career

Pre-Apple

Apple formation and success

Plane crash and temporary leave from Apple

UC Berkeley and US Festivals

Return to Apple product development

Final departure from Apple workforce

Post-Apple

Inventions

Philanthropy

Views on artificial superintelligence

Personal life

Honors and awards

Honorary degrees

In media

Documentaries

Feature films

Television

See also

References

External links

Steve Wozniak

Talks

1 March, 1976