关于乔布斯的演讲稿

关于乔布斯的演讲稿 关于乔布斯的演讲稿 关于乔布斯的演讲稿Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple Computer, a leader in the field of personal computing which he co-founded in 1976, and Pixar, the Academy-Award-winning animation studio he co-founded in 1986. His innovative idea of what a personal computer should be led him to revolutionize the consumer computer hardware and software industry. When Jobs was twenty one, he and a friend, Steve Wozniak, built a personal computer that they called the Apple. The Apple changed people's idea of what a computer should be. Thanks to the Apple, people's image of computers changed from being a gigantic and inscrutable maof vacuum tubes only used by big busineand the government to a small box used by ordinary people. No company has done more to democratize the computer and make it user-friendly than Apple Computer. Steve Jobs software design for the Macintosh introduced the windows interf-ace and the mouse which set a new standard for graphical interf-ace applications and interf-ace interaction. Jobs was an unlikely candidate to have become the prototype of America's computer industry entrepreneur. While still in high school, Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto. He was also hired as a summer employee for Hewlett-Packard. Another employee at Hewlett-Packard was Stephen Wozniak a recent dropout from the University of California at Berkeley and an engineering whiz with a passion for inventing electronic gadgets. In 1972 Jobs graduated from high school and register at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Going to work for Atari after leaving Reed College, Jobs renewed his friendship with Steve Wozniak. The two designed computer games for Atari and a telephone "blue box", getting much of their impetus from the Homebrew Computer Club. Jobs was not interested in creating electronics and was nowhere near as good an engineer as Wozniak. Although he was not really interested in creating electronics, his businesense for the marketability of these products was the turning point. He asked his engineering friend Wozniak to help him build a personal computer. Jobs sold his Volkswagen micro-bus and Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator, which raised $1,300 to start their new company. With that initial capital and credit lines with local electronics suppliers, they set up their first production line. Jobs encouraged Wozniak to quit his job at Hewlett-Packard and become the vice president in charge of research and development of the new enterprise. Beginning work in the Job's family garage they managed to make their first big sale when the Byte Shop in Mountain View bought their first fifty fully assembled computers. On this basis the Apple Corporation was founded. The name is allegedly based on Job's favorite fruit and the logo chosen to play on both the company name and the word byte. Steve Jobs was a true visionary who created the first truly personal computer, the Apple, in his garage. From calculating federal taxes to executing individual busineoperations, Jobs lead a hardware revolution by reducing the size of computers to small boxes and introducing them to the masses. The development of the Macintosh re-introduced Xerox's innovative idea of a user-friendly interf-ace with a mouse. The Macintosh used a windows interf-ace which contained picture-like icons representing a function or a program to be executed. The user would use the mouse to move a cursor onto the icon and prethe mouse button to execute the function or program. The Macintosh interf-ace has since been copied by every operating systems manufacturer in the world and become the standard interf-ace format for both personal computers and super-computers. On September 12, 1985 Steve Jobs stood up in an Apple board meeting and after years of internal political turmoil and power struggles, said in a flay, unemotional voice, "I've been thinking a lot and it's time for me to get on with my life. It's obvious that I've got to do something. I'm thirty years old." Resigning as chairman, Steve said he intended to leave the company and start a new venture to addrethe higher education market. After leaving Apple, Jobs' new revolutionary ideas were not in hardware but in software of the computer industry. In 1989 Jobs tried to do it all over again with a new company called Next. He planned to build the next generation of personal computers that would put Apple to shame. It didn't quite happen that way. After eight long years of struggle and after running through $250 million in capital, Next closed down its hardware division in 1993. Jobs realized that he was not going to revolutionize the hardware industry; he had done that once already. He turned his attention to the software side of the computer industry. Jobs envisioned that the NextStep operating system would revolutionize the computer. The core of the NextStep OS was a new technology called object-oriented programming . OOP lets programmers write complex software programs in a fraction of the usual time. NeXT Software was sold to Apple Computer in February 1997. Steve Jobs is also Chairman and CEO of Pixar, the Academy-Award-winning computer animation studios which he co-founded in 1986. Pixar's first feature film, Toy Story, was released by Walt Disney Pictures in November 1995 and became the highest domestic grossing film released that year and the third highest grossing animated film of all time. As the Chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, he pays himself an annual salary of $1 per year. Steve still lives with his wife and three children near where he grew up in the apricot orchard now known as Silicon Valley.