14 DAY TRIAL // Apple Co-Founder, Steve Wozniak, will be interviewed live on stage at the 48th Design Automation Conference (DAC) on a wide range of topics, including the ‘joy’ of engineering and following your passion to convert innovative ideas into reality, DAC organizers have announced.
DAC is touted as the premier conference devoted to design and design automation of electronic systems.
This year’s event be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, from June 5-10, 2011.
According to the folks behind DAC, the Woz will provide a unique insight into the vision that started the largest and most successful technology company in the world.
Other industry luminaries, from Freescale Semiconductor, Intel, and IBM will also give keynotes at the 48th Design Automation Conference.
“In assembling the 48th DAC series of distinguished keynotes, DAC is emphasizing the changes that Embedded Systems and Software are driving in electronic product design and its impact on the EDA industry in the keynotes by Lisa Su and Gadi Singer,” said Leon Stok, general chair of the 48th DAC.
“Steve Wozniak will lead this off by showing us the sheer joy of engineering innovation in putting challenging systems together,” added Stok. “The series will be rounded off by Dharmendra Modha offering us a glimpse in the future of computing.”
A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, Steve Wozniak has 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.
America’s favorite geek, Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 alongside Steve Jobs, who currently runs the company as CEO, albeit now on medical leave of absence.
For his achievements at Apple, including the Apple I personal computer, Wozniak was awarded the highest honor bestowed on America’s leading innovators - the National Medal of Technology.
Since the 1980's, Wozniak has been involved in various business and philanthropic ventures and is now Chief Scientist for Fusion-IO.