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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Steve Wozniak, Seymour Cray, Konrad Zuse, J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, Butler Lampson, John Vincent Atanasoff, Steve Jobs, Alan Kotok, Bernard Marshall Gordon, Tasneem M. Shah, Maurice Wilkes, W. Daniel Hillis, Donald B. Gillies, Gordon Bell, William Goddard, Peter Samson, Charles P. Thacker, Bashir Rameyev, Steve Furber, John L. Hennessy, David Patterson, Peter Vogel, Stan Frankel, John Pinkerton, Srinidhi Varadarajan, David May, Sergey Alexeyevich Lebedev, John Cocke, Boris Babaian, John Bentley Stringer, Daniel Kottke, Harry Huskey, Masatoshi Shima, Ken Batcher, James R. Goodman, Justin Rattner, Robert J. Mical, John Fairclough, Steve Chen, Mark Carlson, Bob Colwell, Michael Dhuey, Robert Brunner, John Crawford. Excerpt: Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is co-founder, chairman, and former chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 film Toy Story as an executive producer. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1984, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of N...
