Stephen Gary Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950, in San Jose, California. His mother, Margaret Louise Wozniak (née Kern) (1923–2014), was from Washington state, and his father, Francis Jacob "Jerry" Wozniak (1925–1994) of

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In 1969, Wozniak returned to the San Francisco Bay Area after being expelled from the University of Colorado Boulder in his first year for hacking the university's computer system.
He re-enrolled at De Anza Collegein Cupertino before

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Wozniak is listed as the sole inventor on the following Apple patents:
• US Patent No. 4,136,359: "Microcomputer for use with video display" —for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
• US Patent No. 4,210,959: "Controller for magnetic

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• In 1979, Wozniak was awarded the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. In 1985, both he and Steve Jobs received the National Medal of Technology from US President Ronald Reagan

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Steve Wozniak has been mentioned, represented, or interviewed countless times in media from the founding of Apple to the present. Wiredmagazine described him as a person of

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In March 2015, Wozniak stated that while he had originally dismissed Ray Kurzweil's opinion that machine intelligencewould outpace human intelligence within several decades, Wozniak had

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In 1990, Wozniak helped found the Electronic Frontier Foundation, providing some of the organization's initial funding and serving on its founding Board of Directors. He is the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose

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