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STEVE WOZNIAK: ENGINEERING AS AN ART FORM
Location: Microsoft, 1065 La Avenida Street, Building 1, Mountain View, CA, 94043
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Start Date/Time: 09.14.06, 6:30 PM
Overview
“Art without engineering is dreaming; engineering without art is calculating.”
-- Anonymous
Great engineering occurs when the fields of engineering and art collaborate to create stunning achievements such as the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Concorde SST. Success in both fields requires creativity, innovation, and pushing the boundaries of generally accepted methods. Combined, art and engineering can affect our lives in powerful ways.
Mr. Wozniak’s talk will tie these two themes together: Where do art and engineering come from? What is art in engineering? Hear from one of the icons of Silicon Valley about his multidisciplinary approach to designing great products such as the first line of Apple computers.
About the Speaker
A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators.
In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for “single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.”
Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak “adopted” the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, the Silicon Valley Ballet, and the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.
Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of an end-to-end wireless Internet platform.
Pricing:
General Admission: $20
CMU Alumni: $10
CMU Students: $0
Contact:
Diane Dimeff
diane.dimeff@west.cmu.edu
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