Electrical engineer and founder of the Apple Computer Company Steve Wazniak was born Stephen Gary Wozniak, on August 11, 1950, in San Jose, California. Wozniak’s early interest in computers was encouraged by his mother and father, an electrical engineer at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. As a child Steve Wozniak was enthralled with mathematics and computers. Considered a child prodigy in the field of mathematics, Wozniak was building transistor radios at age 10 and calculators at age 11. …showed first 75 words of 2504 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2504 total…industry that has come to touch the lives of almost everybody in some way. His inventions have laid the framework for others to come and make computer a day to day word; his Apple II set the standard for the industry. Wozniak was the typical computer "nerd" an electronic tinkered, computer gamer as well as a math genius. If it wasn't for Woz we would not have the information age as we have it now.