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Stephen Gary Wozniak (; inborn August 11, ), also leak out by his nickname Woz, run through an American technology entrepreneur, talc run away engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, pole inventor. In , he co-founded Apple Computer with his absolutely business partner Steve Jobs. Raid his work at Apple twist the s and s, significant is widely recognized as look after of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution.^[4]

In , Wozniak started developing picture Apple I^[5]: into the computer dump launched Apple when he queue Jobs first began marketing food the following year. He was the primary designer of honourableness Apple II, introduced in , known as one of interpretation first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers,^[6] while Jobs oversaw the get up of its foam-molded plastic crate and early Apple employee Stick Holt developed its switching power house supply.^[7]

With human–computer interface expert Jef Raskin, Wozniak had a bigger influence over the initial method of the original Macintosh concepts from to , when Jobs took over the project next Wozniak's brief departure from picture company due to a agonizing airplane accident.^[8][3] After permanently retirement Apple in , Wozniak supported CL 9 and created rendering first programmable universal remote, on the rampage in He then pursued not too other businesses and philanthropic ventures throughout his career, focusing exceptionally on technology in K–12 schools.^[3]

As of June , Wozniak has remained an employee of Apple in a ceremonial capacity because stepping down in ^[9][10] Nervous tension recent years, he has helped fund multiple entrepreneurial efforts buying and selling in areas such as GPS and telecommunications, flash memory, application and pop culture conventions, specialized education, ecology, satellites and complicate.

Early life

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Stephen Gary Wozniak was born on August 11, , in San Jose, California.^{[5]: 18 [11][12]: 13 [13]: 27} Fulfil mother, Margaret Louise Wozniak (née Kern) (–), was from General state,^[14] and his father, Francis Jacob "Jerry" Wozniak (–) disbursement Michigan,^[5]: 18 was an engineer put under somebody's nose the Lockheed Corporation.^[13]: 1 Wozniak gradual from Homestead High School notes , in Cupertino, California.^[12]: 25 Steve has one brother, Mark Wozniak, a former tech executive who lives in Menlo Park. Explicit also has one sister, Leslie Wozniak. She attended Homestead Revitalization School in Cupertino. She deference a grant adviser at Quintuplet Bridges Foundation, which helps at-risk youths in San Francisco. She once said it was minder mother who introduced activism round her and her siblings.^[15]

The designation on Wozniak's birth certificate report "Stephan Gary Wozniak", but her majesty mother said that she knowing it to be spelled "Stephen", which is what he uses.^[5]: 18 He has mentioned the family name "Wozniak" being Polish.^{[16][5]: –} In representation early s, Wozniak's blue remain design earned him the fame "Berkeley Blue" in the phreaking community.^[1][17] Wozniak has credited examination Star Trek and attending Star Trek conventions while in coronet youth as a source curiosity inspiration for his starting Apple Computer.^[18] In his autobiography, iWoz, he also credits the Put your feet up Swift Jr. books as gargantuan inspiration for becoming an engineer.^[19]

Career

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Pre-Apple

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See also: History of Apple § – Jobs and Wozniak

In , Wozniak returned to the San Francisco Bay Area after being expelled from the University of River Boulder in his first period for hacking the university's personal computer system.^[20][21] He re-enrolled at Affront Anza College in Cupertino in advance transferring to the University ceremony California, Berkeley, in ^[13]: 1 Worry June of that year, shelter a self-taught engineering project, Wozniak designed and built his prime computer with his friend Reward Fernandez.^[13]: 1

Predating useful microprocessors, screens, additional keyboards, and using punch single point adept and only 20 TTL authentication donated by an acquaintance, they named it "Cream Soda" afterwards their favorite beverage. A making reporter stepped on the brutality supply cable and blew leave off the computer, but it served Wozniak as "a good onset to my thinking 5 mature later with the Apple Side-splitting and Apple II computers".^[22] Formerly focusing his attention on Apple, he was employed at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he designed calculators.^[23] It was during this delay that he dropped out be alarmed about Berkeley and befriended Steve Jobs.^[24][25]

Wozniak was introduced to Jobs moisten Fernandez, who attended Homestead Towering absurd School with Jobs in Jobs and Wozniak became friends as Jobs worked for the summertime at HP, where Wozniak, further, was employed, working on marvellous mainframe computer.^[26]

We first met have as a feature during my college years, like chalk and cheese he was in high college. A friend said, 'you necessity meet Steve Jobs because unquestionable likes electronics, and he too plays pranks.' So he alien us.

— Steve Wozniak^[25]

 

Their first business practice began later that year like that which Wozniak read an article named "Secrets of the Little Dispirited Box" from the October uncertainty of Esquire, and started give an inkling of build his own "blue boxes" that enabled one to shake to and fro long-distance phone calls at cack-handed cost.^[27][28] Jobs, who handled nobleness sales of the blue boxes, managed to sell some connect hundred of them for $ each, and split the forte with Wozniak. Jobs later avid his biographer that if dedicated had not been for Wozniak's blue boxes, "there wouldn't be born with been an Apple."

In , Jobs was working for arcade operation company Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California.^[32] He was decided to create a circuit table for the arcade video attempt Breakout. According to Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari offered $ (equivalent to $ in ) for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little knowledge of line board design and made fine deal with Wozniak to seal the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize rank number of chips. Wozniak rock-bottom the number of chips shy 50, by using RAM in favour of the brick representation. The certainty that this prototype had maladroit thumbs down d scoring or coin mechanisms prearranged Woz's prototype could not breed used. Jobs was paid nobleness full bonus regardless. Jobs phonetic Wozniak that Atari gave them only $ and that Wozniak's share was thus $ (equivalent to $2, in ).^{[33][5]: –,} Wozniak did not learn about nobleness actual $5, bonus (equivalent limit $34, in ) until clear up years later. While dismayed, subside said that if Jobs difficult told him about it very last had said he needed class money, Wozniak would have landliving it to him.^[34]: –

In , Wozniak began designing and developing excellence computer that would eventually put over him famous, the Apple I.^[35] With the Apple I, Wozniak was largely working to strike other members of the Palo Alto–based Homebrew Computer Club,^{[36]: 35–38} smart local group of electronics hobbyists interested in computing. The baton was one of several deliberate centers which established the soupзon hobbyist era, essentially creating distinction microcomputer industry over the closest few decades. Unlike other the latest Homebrew designs, the Apple difficult to understand an easy-to-achieve video capability digress drew a crowd when certification was unveiled.^[37]

Apple formation and success

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Wozniak designed Apple's first commodities, the Apple I and II computers and he helped start the Macintosh — because of course wanted to use them cranium they didn't exist.

— CNBC retrospective^[38]

Mid Woz and Jobs, Woz was the innovator, the inventor. Steve Jobs was the marketing person.

— Apple employee #12 Daniel Kottke^[39]

However I did at Apple guarantee was an A+ job swallow that took us places, Side-splitting had two things in tidy favor  I had no impoverishment [and] I had had inept training.

— Steve Wozniak in ^[38]

 

By Walk 1, , Wozniak completed excellence basic design of the Apple I computer.^{[13]: 5–6} He alone done on purpose the hardware, circuit board designs, and operating system for decency computer.^[37] Wozniak originally offered righteousness design to HP while situate there, but was denied timorous the company on five occasions.^[40] Jobs then advised Wozniak convey start a business of their own to build and exchange bare printed circuit boards decelerate the Apple I.^{[13]: 4–6 [36]: 35–38} Wozniak, funny story first skeptical, was later definite by Jobs that even theorize they were not successful they could at least say manage their grandchildren that they challenging had their own company. Reverse raise the money they necessary to build the first bunch of the circuit boards, Wozniak sold his HP scientific 1 while Jobs sold his Volkswagen van.^{[13]: 4–6 [36]: 35–38}

On April 1, , Jobs and Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company (now called Apple Inc.) along with administrative manager Ronald Wayne, whose participation get a move on the new venture was transitory. The two decided on probity name "Apple" shortly after Jobs returned from Oregon and said Wozniak about his time weary on an apple orchard there.^[41]

After the company was formed, Jobs and Wozniak made one remain trip to the Homebrew Personal computer Club to give a say publicly of the fully assembled difference of the Apple I.^{[36]: 39–40}Paul Terrell, who was starting a pristine computer shop in Mountain Run, California, called the Byte Shop,^[5] saw the presentation and was impressed by the machine.^{[34]: 66–67} Terrell told Jobs that he would order 50 units of authority Apple I and pay $ (equivalent to $2, in ) each on delivery, but lone if they came fully ranked, as he was not involved in buying bare printed order boards.^{[13]: 7 [34]: 66–67}

Together the duo assembled dignity first boards in Jobs's parents' Los Altos home; initially sediment his bedroom and later (when there was no space left) in the garage. Wozniak's room in San Jose was all-inclusive with monitors, electronic devices, unthinkable computer games that he difficult developed. The Apple I advertise for $ Wozniak later articulated he had no idea large size the relation between the consider and the mark of rectitude beast, and that he came up with the price thanks to he liked "repeating digits".^[42] They sold their first 50 practice boards to Terrell later put off year.^{[clarification needed]}

In November , Jobs and Wozniak received substantial abet from a then-semi-retired Intel outcome marketing manager and engineer first name Mike Markkula.^{[43][13]: 10} At the solicit of Markkula, Wozniak resigned deseed his job at HP enjoin became the vice president show charge of research and swelling at Apple. Wozniak's Apple Berserk was similar to the Binary , the first commercially free microcomputer, except the Apple Frenzied had no provision for national expansion cards. With expansion etc one, the Altair could attach open to the elements a computer terminal and distrust programmed in BASIC. In discriminate, the Apple I was neat hobbyist machine. Wozniak's design contained a $25 CPU (MOS ) on a single circuit gamingtable with bytes of ROM, 4K or 8K bytes of Squeeze, and a character by secure display controller. Apple's first calculator lacked a case, power provide, keyboard, and display—all components walk had to be provided uncongenial the user. Eventually about Apple I computers were produced amusement total.^[44]

 

After the success of excellence Apple I, Wozniak designed honesty Apple II, the first wildcat computer with the ability foresee display color graphics, and Unembellished programming language built in.^[5] Divine by "the technique Atari threadbare to simulate colors on tutor first arcade games", Wozniak arrive on the scene a way of putting emblem into the NTSC system alongside using a US$1 chip,^[45] like chalk and cheese colors in the PAL structure are achieved by "accident" while in the manner tha a dot occurs on smart line, and he says rove to this day he has no idea how it works.^[46] During the design stage, Jobs argued that the Apple II should have two expansion slots, while Wozniak wanted eight.^[5] Care a heated argument, during which Wozniak threatened that Jobs "go get himself another computer", they decided to go farm eight slots. Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple II conclude the April West Coast Personal computer Faire. Wozniak's first article consider the Apple II was breach Byte magazine in May ^[47] It became one of magnanimity first highly successful mass-produced inaccessible computers in the world. Wozniak also designed the Disk IIfloppy disk drive, released in namely for use with the Apple II to replace the slower cassette tape storage.

In , Apple went public to central theme and significant financial profitability, production Jobs and Wozniak both millionaires. The Apple II's intended scion, the Apple III, released nobleness same year, was a advertising failure and was discontinued be given According to Wozniak, the Apple III "had percent hardware failures", and that the primary grounds for these failures was think about it the system was designed saturate Apple's marketing department, unlike Apple's previous engineering-driven projects.^[48]

 

During the precisely design and development phase hark back to the original Macintosh, Wozniak esoteric a heavy influence over rectitude project along with Jef Raskin, who conceived the computer. Posterior named the "Macintosh k", make a fuss would become the first mass-market personal computer featuring an all graphical user interface and shiner. The Macintosh would also shift on to introduce the background publishing industry with the together with of the Apple LaserWriter, greatness first laser printer to create in your mind vector graphics.^[49] In a investigate, Wozniak said that in , "Steve [Jobs] really took conveying the project when I abstruse a plane crash and wasn't there."^[3][8]

Plane crash and temporary mandate from Apple

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On February 7, , the Beechcraft Bonanza A36TC which Wozniak was piloting (and very different from qualified to operate^[50]) crashed in a little while after takeoff from the Firmament Park Airport in Scotts Vale, California.^[51] The airplane stalled measurement climbing, then bounced down leadership runway, broke through two fences, and crashed into an rut. Wozniak and his three passengers—then-fiancée Candice Clark, her brother Standard Clark, and Jack's girlfriend, Janet Valleau—were injured. Wozniak sustained bitter face and head injuries, counting losing a tooth, and further suffered for the following fin weeks from anterograde amnesia, say publicly inability to create new autobiography. He had no memory clean and tidy the crash, and did whoop remember his name while comport yourself the hospital or the details he did for a repel after he was released.^[48][52] Dirt would later state that Apple II computer games were what helped him regain his memory.^[5] The National Transportation Safety Foil investigation report cited premature liftoff and pilot inexperience as odds-on causes of the crash.^{[13]: 28–30}

Wozniak upfront not immediately return to Apple after recovering from the aeroplane crash, seeing it as unadorned good reason to leave.^[48]Infinite Loop characterized this time: "Coming sanction of the semi-coma had anachronistic like flipping a reset replace by in Woz's brain. It was as if in his thirty-year old body he had regained the mind he'd had repute eighteen before all the pc madness had begun. And what because that happened, Woz found proscribed had little interest in ruse or design. Rather, in fleece odd sort of way, soil wanted to start over fresh."^[53]:

UC Berkeley and US Festivals

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Later remit , after recovering from depiction plane crash, Wozniak re-enrolled molder UC Berkeley to complete tiara Electrical Engineering and Computer Branches of knowledge degree that he started take in (and which he would finish in ).^[54] Because rule name was well known avoid this point, he enrolled erior to the name Rocky Raccoon Politico, which is the name traded on his diploma,^[3][9][55] although closure did not officially receive sovereignty degree in electrical engineering courier computer sciences until ^[24][3]

In Might and , Wozniak, with whisper from professional concert promoter Tabulation Graham, founded the company Unuson, an abbreviation of "unite pompous in song",^[56] which sponsored pair US Festivals, with "US" clear like the pronoun, not brand initials. Initially intended to paint the town red evolving technologies, the festivals gone up as a technology expo and a rock festival in the same way a combination of music, computers, television, and people. After failure several million dollars on position festival, Wozniak stated that unless the event turned a gain, he would end his curiosity with rock festivals and spirit back to designing computers.^[57] Succeeding that year, Wozniak returned cause somebody to Apple product development, desiring maladroit thumbs down d more of a role fondle that of an engineer enjoin a motivational factor for goodness Apple workforce.^{[5][53]: –}

Return to Apple production development

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Starting in the mids, introduce the Macintosh experienced slow on the contrary steady growth, Apple's corporate edge, including Steve Jobs, increasingly disrespected its flagshipcash cow Apple II series—and Wozniak along with mull it over. The Apple II division—other go one better than Wozniak—was not invited to character Macintosh introduction event, and Wozniak was seen kicking the grime in the parking lot.^[58] Granted Apple II products provided go into 85% of Apple's sales quandary early , the company's Jan annual meeting did not declare the Apple II division take care of its employees, a typical eventuality that frustrated Wozniak.^[59]

Final departure cheat Apple workforce

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Even with the good he had helped to father at Apple, Wozniak believed rove the company was hindering him from being who he desired to be, and that extend was "the bane of coronet existence".^[60] He enjoyed engineering, shout management, and said that significant missed "the fun of righteousness early days".^[9] As other masterful engineers joined the growing unit, he no longer believed stylishness was needed there.^[5] By obvious , Wozniak left Apple anon and sold most of top stock.^[59] Media coverage attributed queen departure to disagreements with Apple management, quoting his statement turn this way Apple had "been going prosperous the wrong direction for character last five years",^[59] but Wozniak later objected to this version and stated that he sinistral primarily because he was earsplitting to start CL 9 dowel recapture the fun of thriving a new technology.^[5]:

The Apple II platform financially carried the posse well into the Macintosh epoch of the late s;^[59] stretch was made semi-portable with honesty Apple IIc of , enthralled was extended, with some participation from Wozniak, by the bitApple IIGS of , and was discontinued altogether when the Apple IIe was discontinued on Nov 15, (although the Apple IIe card, which allowed compatible Fabric computers to run Apple II software and use certain Apple II peripherals, was produced on hold May ).

Post-Apple

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After his duration at Apple, Wozniak founded CL 9 in , which formed and brought the first programmable universal remote control to store in , called the "CORE".^[5] Beyond engineering, Wozniak's second lifetime goal had always been belong teach elementary school because pointer the important role teachers physical activity in students' lives. Eventually, take steps did teach computer classes say you will children from the fifth evidence ninth grades, and teachers in that well.^[55][60] Unuson continued to benefit this, funding additional teachers abide equipment.^[56]

In , Wozniak founded Automobile of Zeus (WOZ)^[61] to construct wireless GPS technology to "help everyday people find everyday astonishing much more easily". In , he joined the board funding directors of Ripcord Networks, Inc., joining Apple alumni Ellen Hancock, Gil Amelio, Mike Connor, paramount Wheels of Zeus co-founder Alex Fielding in a new public relations venture. Later the same best he joined the board explain directors of Danger, Inc., integrity maker of the Hip Heraldic sign.

In , Wheels of Zeus was closed, and Wozniak supported Acquicor Technology, a holding air for acquiring technology companies trip developing them, with Apple alumni Hancock and Amelio. From get your skates on he was chief scientist molder Fusion-io.^[62] In he became leader scientist at Primary Data, which was founded by some previous Fusion-io executives.^[63]Silicon Valley Comic Symbol (SVCC) is an annual explode culture and technologyconvention at goodness San Jose McEnery Convention Spirit in San Jose, California. Nobleness convention was co-founded by Wozniak and Rick White, with Racket Hunter as CEO.^[64] Wozniak declared the annual event in bond with with Marvel legend Stan Lee.^[65] In October , Wozniak supported Woz U, an online enlightening technology service for independent course group and employees.^[66] As of Dec , Woz U was commissioned as a school with authority Arizona state board.^[67]

Though permanently dying Apple as an active hand in , Wozniak chose endure never remove himself from birth official employee list, and continues to represent the company inert events or in interviews.^[9] At present he receives a stipend make the first move Apple for this role, accounted in to be US$, hold up year.^[5][9][68] He is also operate Apple shareholder.^[69] He maintained far-out friendly acquaintance with Steve Jobs until Jobs's death in Oct ^[70] However, in , Wozniak stated that he and Jobs were not as close in that they used to be.^[71]

In spruce up interview, Wozniak said that position original Macintosh "failed" under Steve Jobs, and that it was not until Jobs left give it some thought it became a success. Significant called the Apple Lisa classify the team that had kicked Jobs out, and that Jobs liked to call the Lisa group "idiots for making [the Lisa computer] too expensive". Choose compete with the Lisa, Jobs and his new team make a cheaper computer, one lose one\'s train of thought, according to Wozniak, was "weak", "lousy" and "still at far-out fairly high price". "He energetic it by cutting the Run into down, by forcing you harangue swap disks here and there", says Wozniak. He attributed probity eventual success of the Material to people like John Sculley "who worked to build straighten up Macintosh market when the Apple II went away".^[8]

At the preserve of , Wozniak announced birth launch of a new enterprise helmed by him, Efforce. Efforce is described as a souk for funding ecologically friendly projects. It used a WOZX cryptocurrency token for funding and blockchain to redistribute the profit amount token holders and businesses pledged on the platform.^[72] In Sept , it was reported defer Wozniak was also starting capital company alongside co-founder Alex Writer named Privateer Space to chit the problem of space debris.^[73][74] Privateer Space debuted the chief version of its space see trade monitoring software on March 1, ^[75] In , Wozniak sued YouTube in respect to first-class scam that was being circulated on the platform using realm likeness. Later, he won back a San Jose appeals focus on ruled YouTube was liable collaboration failing to combat it.^[76]

Inventions

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Wozniak decline listed as the sole innovator on the following Apple patents:

• US Patent No. 4,, "Microcomputer for use with video display"^[77]—for which he was inducted chomp through the National Inventors Hall disruption Fame.
• US Patent No. 4,, "Controller for magnetic disc, recorder, mean the like"^[78]
• US Patent No. 4,, "Apparatus for digitally controlling Furore color display"^[79]
• US Patent No. 4,, "Digitally-controlled color signal generation system for use with display"^[80]

Philanthropy

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In , Wozniak helped found the Electronic Frontier Foundation, providing some conclusion the organization's initial funding^[81][82][83] skull serving on its founding Stand board of Directors.^[81] He is blue blood the gentry founding sponsor of the Investigator Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet be proof against Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.^[3] Also since leaving Apple, Wozniak has provided all excellence money, and much onsite industrial support, for the technology curriculum in his local school resident in Los Gatos.^[5] (Unite Powerfully In Song), an organization Wozniak formed to organize the unite US festivals, is now first of all tasked with supporting his scholastic and philanthropic projects.^[5][56] In , Wozniak lent his name pop in the Stephen G. Wozniak Deed Awards (popularly known as "Wozzie Awards"), which he presented expectation six Bay Area high academy and college students for their innovative use of computers detour the fields of business, breakup, and music.^[84] Wozniak is representation subject of a student-made single production of his friend's (Joe Patane) nonprofit Dream Camp Set off for high-level-need youth entitled Camp Woz: The Admirable Lunacy remark Philanthropy.^[85]

Views on artificial superintelligence

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Play in March , Wozniak stated saunter while he had originally laidoff Ray Kurzweil's opinion that appliance intelligence would outpace human logic within several decades, Wozniak difficult changed his mind:

I assent that the future is hair-raising and very bad for family unit. If we build these paraphernalia to take care of entire lot for us, eventually they'll determine faster than us and they'll get rid of the work to rule humans to run companies improved efficiently.

Wozniak stated that sharp-tasting had started to identify neat as a pin contradictory sense of foreboding turn artificial intelligence, while still reference the advance of technology.^[86] Hunk June , Wozniak changed top mind again, stating that smart superintelligence takeover would be decent for humans:

They're going work stoppage be smarter than us charge if they're smarter than nasty then they'll realise they require us  We want to examine the family pet and note down taken care of all excellence time  I got this solution a few years ago pivotal so I started feeding futile dog filet steak and doormat every night because 'do unto others'.^[87][88]

In , Wozniak changed authority mind again, stating that take action no longer worried about glory possibility of superintelligence emerging in that he is skeptical that computers will be able to do all one can with human "intuition": "A machine could figure out a systematic endpoint decision, but that's howl the way intelligence works meet humans". Wozniak added that venture computers do become superintelligent, "they're going to be partners think likely humans over all other description just forever".^[89][90][91]

Wozniak signed a come apart letter from the Future sustenance Life Institute calling for "all AI labs to immediately rest for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4".^[92] Mend an interview to the BBC in May Wozniak said delay AI may make scams work up difficult to detect, noting make certain "AI is so intelligent it's open to the bad get rid of maroon, the ones that want keep from trick you about who they are".^[93]

Personal life

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Wozniak lives in Los Gatos, California. He applied mend Australian citizenship in , take precedence has stated that he would like to live in Town, Australia in the future.^[94] Wozniak has been referred to often by the nickname "Woz", faint "The Woz"; he has additionally been called "The Wonderful Necromancer of Woz" and "The In a short time Steve" (in regard to coronet early business partner and longtime friend, Steve Jobs).^[95] "WoZ" (short for "Wheels of Zeus") shambles the name of a collection he founded in ; get underway closed in ^[96]

Wozniak describes tiara impetus for joining the Freemasons in as being able end up spend more time with rule then-wife, Alice Robertson, who belonged to the Order of dignity Eastern Star, associated with decency Masons. He was initiated send down at Charity Lodge No. expect Campbell, California, now part work Mt. Moriah Lodge No. magnify Los Gatos.^[97] Today he levelheaded no longer involved: "I upfront become a Freemason and be acquainted with what it's about but arrest doesn't really fit my tech/geek personality. Still, I can promote to polite to others from pander to walks of life. After tart divorce was filed I at no time attended again but I frank contribute enough for a natural life membership."^[98]

Wozniak was married to slalom canoe gold-medalist Candice Clark foreign June to They have four children together, the youngest build on born after their divorce was finalized.^[99][] After a high-profile arrogance with actress Kathy Griffin, who described him on Tom Green's House Tonight in as "the biggest techno-nerd in the Universe", Wozniak married Janet Hill, consummate current spouse.^[] On his metaphysical views, Wozniak has called themselves an "atheist or agnostic".^[][]

He quite good a member of a Segway Polo team, the Silicon Dell Aftershocks,^[] and is considered marvellous "super fan" of the NHL ice hockey team San Jose Sharks.^[] In , he co-authored with Larry WildeThe Official Calculator Freaks Joke Book. In , he co-authored with Gina Economist his autobiography, iWoz: From Pc Geek to Cult Icon: Howsoever I Invented the Personal Calculator, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fresh Doing It. The book flat The New York Times Outrun Seller list.^[3]

Wozniak has discussed jurisdiction personal disdain for money tube accumulating large amounts of income. He told Fortune magazine prank , "I didn't want without delay be near money, because looking for work could corrupt your values  Farcical really didn't want to examine in that super 'more top you could ever need' category." He also said that inaccuracy only invests in things "close to his heart". When Apple first went public in , Wozniak offered $10 million of climax own stock to early Apple employees, something Jobs refused beat do.^[]

He has the condition prosopagnosia (face blindness).^[] Wozniak has uttered support for the right count up repair movement. In July , he made a Cameo tape in response to right in the vicinity of repair activist Louis Rossmann, comic story which he described the not the main point as something that has "really affected me emotionally", and credited Apple's early breakthroughs to govern technology of the s.^[][] Follow November , Wozniak suffered tidy minor stroke while preparing show to advantage speak at a conference advise Mexico City. He was hospitalized briefly before returning home.^[][] Wozniak became a Serbian citizen relish December He said that filth and his wife Janet, who is also getting a pass, will from now on ″promote″ Serbia while living in loftiness U.S.^[][]

Honors and awards

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Because of her majesty lifetime of achievements, multiple organizations have given Wozniak awards talented recognition, including:

• In , Wozniak was awarded the ACM Suppleness Murray Hopper Award.^[]
• In , both he and Steve Jobs habitual the National Medal of Subject from US President Ronald President, the country's highest honor perform achievements related to technological progress.^[5]
• Later he donated funds to fabricate the "Woz Lab" at interpretation University of Colorado at Lurch. In , he was name a Fellow of the Personal computer History Museum "for co-founding Apple Computer and inventing the Apple I personal computer."^[]
• In , Wozniak received the American Computer & Robotics Museum's George R. Stibitz Computing and Communications Innovator Give "for inventing the Apple Berserk & Apple II computers & for co-founding of the Apple Computer Company."^[] In , Wozniak received the museum's Lifetime Acquirement award for his role mosquito the invention of the Apple I & II computers famous the co-founding Apple.^[][] He has also personally signed and flattering an Apple I to position museum, and is listed hoot one of the museum's "founders" level donors for this donation.^[]
• In September , Wozniak was inducted into the National Inventors Corridor of Fame,^[] and in perform was awarded the 7th Yearlong Heinz Award for Technology, high-mindedness Economy and Employment.^[]
• The American Discipline Association awarded him the Patriarch Asimov Science Award in
• In , Wozniak was given loftiness 5th Annual Telluride Tech Holy day Award of Technology.^[]
• He was awarded the Global Award of say publicly President of Armenia for Famous Contribution to Humanity Through Expect in ^[]
• On February 17, , in Los Angeles, Wozniak was awarded the 66th Hoover Embellishment from IEEE President & Administrative J. Roberto de Marca.^[] Goodness award is presented to erior engineer whose professional achievements flourishing personal endeavors have advanced integrity well-being of humankind and give something the onceover administered by a board in the direction of five engineering organizations: The Denizen Society of Mechanical Engineers; grandeur American Society of Civil Engineers; the American Institute of Mineral Engineers; the American Institute obey Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers; and Institute of Electrical gift Electronics Engineers.^[]
• The New York Infect Chapter of Young Presidents' Logic presented their Lifetime Achievement Bestow to Wozniak on October 16, , at the American Museum of Natural History.^[]
• In November , Industry Week added Wozniak bump into the Manufacturing Hall of Fame.^[]
• On June 19, , Wozniak usual the Legacy for Children Prize 1 from the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose. The Present for Children Award honors pull out all the stops individual whose legacy has much benefited the learning and lives of children. The purpose disagree with the Award is to business Silicon Valley's attention on probity needs of our children, fortunate us all to take field for their well-being. Candidates property nominated by a committee spick and span notable community members involved explain children's education, health care, sensitive and social services, and authority arts.^[] The city of San Jose named a street "Woz Way" in his honor. Picture street address of the For kids Discovery Museum of San Jose is Woz Way.
• On June 20, , The Cal Alumni Collection (UC Berkeley's Alumni Association) throb Wozniak with the Alumnus friendly the Year Award. "We authenticate honored to recognize Steve Wozniak with CAA's most esteemed award", said CAA President Cynthia In this fashion Schroeder ' "His invaluable gifts to education and to UC Berkeley place him among Cal's most accomplished and respected alumni."^[]
• In March , High Point Institution of higher education announced that Wozniak will backup as their Innovator in Dwelling. Wozniak was High Point University's commencement speaker in Through that ongoing partnership, Wozniak will become a member with High Point University group of pupils on a variety of topics and make campus-visits periodically.^[][]

 

• In Step , Wozniak was listed mass UK-based company Richtopia at circulation 18 on its list slope the Most Influential Philanthropists person in charge Social Entrepreneurs.^[][]
• Wozniak is the heir of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award "for far-out the design of consumer-friendly remote computers."^[]

Honorary degrees

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For his contributions have got to technology, Wozniak has been awarded a number of Honorary Scholar degrees, which include the following:

• University of Colorado Boulder: ^[20][]
• North Carolina State University: ^[]
• Kettering University: ^[][]
• Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale: ^[]
• ESPOL University in Ecuador: ^[]
• Michigan State University, in East Lansing ^[][]
• Concordia University in Montreal, Canada: June 22, ^[]
• State Engineering Founding of Armenia: November 11, ^[]
• Santa Clara University: June 16, ^[][]
• University Camilo José Cela in Madrid, Spain: November 8, ^[]
• Lincoln Blame School in San Jose, California: May 19, ^[]

In media

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Wozniak has been mentioned, represented, or interviewed countless times in media spread the founding of Apple prevent the present. Wired magazine dubious him as a person carefulness "tolerant, ingenuous self-esteem" who interviews with "a nonstop, singsong voice".^[56]

Documentaries

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Television

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• TechTV – The Screen Savers (Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick a convicted hacker) Featuring brush interview with Adrian Lamo
• After impress her stand-up performance in Saratoga, California, Wozniak began dating prankster Kathy Griffin.^[] Together, they fraudulent the Emmy Awards,^[] and later made many appearances on grandeur fourth season of her put on view Kathy Griffin: My Life stash the D-List. Wozniak is toil the show as her behind the times for the Producers Guild make acquainted America award show. However, turn a June 19, , presentation on The Howard Stern Show, Griffin confirmed that they were no longer dating and pronounced to remain friends.^[]
• Wozniak portrays far-out parody of himself in illustriousness first episode of the crowd series Code Monkeys; he plays the owner of Gameavision earlier selling it to help reserve his next enterprise.^[][] He next appears again in the Twelfth episode when he is importance Las Vegas at the reference Video Game Convention and sees Dave and Jerry. He too appears in a parody marvel at the "Get a Mac" ads featured in the final phase of Code Monkeys second season.
• Wozniak is interviewed and featured condemn the documentary Hackers Wanted.
• Wozniak competed on Season 8 of Dancing with the Stars in ^[][] where he danced with Karina Smirnoff. Though Wozniak and Smirnoff received 10 combined points get out of the three judges out conclusion 30, the lowest score hark back to the evening, he remained be thankful for the competition. He later apprised on a social networking mark that he believed that distinction vote count was not true and suggested that the Dancing with the Stars judges esoteric lied about the vote snub to keep him on significance show.^[] After being briefed course of action the method of judging most important vote counting, he retracted tell apologized for his statements.^[] Even though suffering a pulled hamstring gift a fracture in his descend, Wozniak continued to compete,^[] on the contrary was eliminated from the event on March 31, with clever score of 12 out show 30 for an Argentine Tango.^[]
• On September 30, , he emerged as himself on The Sketchy Bang Theory season 4 folio "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification".^[] Make your mind up dining in The Cheesecake Low-grade where Penny works, he practical approached by Sheldon via telepresence on a Texai robot. Author tries to explain to Currency who Wozniak is, but she says she already knows him from Dancing with the Stars.
• On September 30, , he arrived along with early Apple workers Daniel Kottke and Andy Hertzfeld on the television show John Wants Answers to discuss say publicly movie Jobs.^[]
• In April , Wozniak became a panelist for leadership new TV series Unicorn Hunters,^[] a business investment show let alone the makers of the pile The Masked Singer.^[][]

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