Dr. Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11 1950 in San Jose, California) is a U.S. computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II gained a sizable amount of popularity, …

Burrell Carver Smith is an engineer who, while working at Apple Computer, designed the digital board for the original Macintosh. He was Apple employee #282, and was hired February, 1979, initially as an Apple II service technician. According to Folklore.org, one day, Smith put a handwritten manual on Andy Hertzfeld's desk explaining the digital board of the Apple II; Hertzfeld was very impressed at how well Burrell explained the digital board of the Apple II, …

Bill Budge (born c. 1954) is a computer game programmer and designer. His two main claims to fame are 1981's "Raster Blaster" and 1983's "Pinball Construction Set". Both these games were released originally for the Apple II. Budge says he became interested in computers while obtaining a PhD at UC Berkeley. He purchased an Apple II and began writing games. He enjoyed it so much that he dropped out of school and became a game programmer.

Randy Wigginton was one of Apple Computer's first employees (#6), creator of MacWrite, Full Impact and numerous other Mac applications. He used to work in development at eBay and now works at Quigo, Inc. Wigginton was a student at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, interested in computers just as the earliest microprocessor-based computers were being assembled by hobbyists.

Jerry Manock is an industrial designer, known for creating the enclosures of the Apple II and Macintosh personal computers. Manock worked for Apple Computer from 1977 to 1984, contributing to the case design of the Apple II, Apple III, and Macintosh. Manock was a Stanford graduate and design consultant when he joined Apple. Today, he teaches product design at the University of Vermont.*

Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc.

Richard "Rich" Skrenta (b.1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a computer programmer. In 1982, as a high school student at Mt. Lebanon High School, Skrenta wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines. It is considered the first computer virus to be found "in the wild." Skrenta graduated from Northwestern University. Between 1989 and 1991 he worked at Commodore Business Machines with Amiga Unix.

Electronics engineer Chuck Peddle is mostly known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor; the KIM-1 SBC; and its successor the Commodore PET school/business/home computer, both based on the 6502. Peddle had worked at Motorola from 1973 on the development of the 6800 processor but then left for MOS Technology, where he headed the design of the 650x family of processors; these were made as an answer to the Motorola 6800.

Marc Blank is an American computer game designer and game programmer. He is best known as part of the team that created one of the first hit text adventure computer games, "Zork". Blank first encountered Don Woods and Will Crowther's "Adventure" game while he was studying at MIT in the mid-1970s, where the game was played on mainframe computers. Blank was frustrated by the computer's tiny vocabulary; when it parsed user inputs very few words were recognized.

Al Lowe, born July 24 1942, is a musician and game designer of Sierra On-Line mostly known for the creation of the "Leisure Suit Larry" series.

Michael "Scotty" Scott (born 1943) was the first CEO of Apple from February 1977 to March 1981. Formerly director of manufacturing at National Semiconductor, Mike Markkula convinced Scott to take the CEO position at Apple, as the co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were neither seen as fit for the job at the time. Attempting to set an example for all businesses, in 1979 Scott declared there would be no typewriters at Apple.

Donald E. Lancaster is a prolific author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer best known for his magazine columns. He is also known for his "TV Typewriter" dumb terminal project, his book on technical entrepreneurship "The Incredible Secret Money Machine," and his work on and advocacy of early print-on-demand technology. Lancaster's print-on-demand technique, with which he self-published several books, …

Bill Fernandez is a user interface architect who was Apple Computer's first employee when they incorporated in 1977. He worked on both the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, and in the 1980s was a member of the Apple Macintosh development team. He contributed to several user interface aspects of the Mac OS, QuickTime and HyperCard and owns a user interface patent granted in 1994.

Will Harvey (born c. 1967) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and game programmer who first made his mark in the video game industry when he was just fifteen and still in high school. Harvey is the Founder of IMVU, an instant messaging company, and of There, Inc., an MMOG company. In high school, Harvey was taking a computer programming class. His teacher asked the class if anyone knew anything about assembly language. Though he did not, Harvey raised his hand.

Donald E. Brown is an American professor of anthropology (emeritus). He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human nature. In his best known work, "Human Universals", he says these universals, "comprise those features of culture, society, language, behavior, …

Donald M. Brown is a computer programmer and creator of "Eamon", a long-running non-commercial RPG computer game series for the Apple II computer released in 1980. Brown subsequently developed "SwordThrust", an expanded commercial version of "Eamon" published by CE Software. He currently works for Prairie Group, a software development company in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Robert J. Woodhead is a entrepreneur, software engineer and former game programmer. Some would says a common thread in his career is "doing weird things with computers". Along with Andrew C. Greenberg, he created the Apple II game "Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord", one of the first role-playing games (RPGs) written for a personal computer. Later, he authored Interferon and Virex, two of the earliest anti-virus applications for the Macintosh, …

Silas Warner (18 August 1949 - 3 March 2004) was a game programmer and the first employee of Muse Software. Among other games, he created "Castle Wolfenstein" and "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein". These two games inspired id Software to create "Wolfenstein 3D", the game that popularized the first-person shooter genre. Warner was educated at Deep Springs College and Indiana University. He was a talented programmer, but lacked some social skills.

Dan Gorlin is a computer game programmer, desginer and founder of Dan Gorlin Productions. He is best known for his 1982 Apple II game "Choplifter".

Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT. He joined the MIT faculty in 1973. In 1992, Abelson was designated as one of MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education.

Bruce Tognazzini is a usability consultant in partnership with Donald Norman and Jakob Nielsen in the Nielsen Norman Group, which specializes in human computer interaction. He was with Apple Computer for many years, then with Sun Microsystems and then WebMD. He has written two books, "Tog on Interface" and "Tog on Software Design", and he publishes the webzine "Asktog", with the tagline "Interaction Design Solutions for the Real World".

Paul Lutus (born 1945) is a programmer, a pilot, a sailor and a NASA engineer. He is the author of these programs below: *AppleWriter, a word processing program. * GraForth - an implementation of Forth (emphasizing graphics) for the Apple II *Arachnophilia, a popular Web page development environment. *AboutTime, a Windows utility synchronizes the system clock with Internet time server through the Network Time Protocol protocol.

Mark Allen is a software engineer, game programmer and game designer. As a student at the University of California, San Diego, Allen developed a 6502 interpreter for the Pascal language in 1978, along with Richard Gleaves. This work later became the basis for Apple Pascal. Later, Allen developed a number of well-received computer games for the Apple II, including "Stellar Invaders", "Sabotage" and "Pest Patrol".

Steve Sakoman is a computing executive. He recently retired from Apple Computer. He originally worked at Hewlett-Packard as a manufacturing engineer and project manager for the industry's first battery powered portable MS-DOS PC, the HP-110. He then moved to Silicon Graphics and as director of Consumer Products & Technologies Group. This included work on the Nintendo 64 graphics system.

Richard Hilleman is an American computer game and video game producer best known for his work creating the original Madden Football game for video game consoles for Electronic Arts. Apart from "Madden", Hilleman was a key figure in building the massive EA Sports brand and has spent over 20 years working in product development at EA. He has directly or indirectly influenced a wide range of games and game designers.

Eddie Dombrower (born 1957) is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer and producer. He is best known as the co-creator of the seminal baseball games "Earl Weaver Baseball" and "Intellivision World Series Baseball". He is also recognized for designing the first dance notation computer software, "DOM". Dombrower studied both dance and mathematics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Delbert W. Yocam (born December 24, 1943) is an American technology executive. Yocam is a former chairman and CEO of Borland, former president, COO & director of Tektronix and a former Apple Computer executive. At Apple, during the 1980s, Yocam ran the Apple II group and later became Apple's first chief operating officer (COO). He is currently a director at Adobe Systems.

Bruce Webster is an internationally recognized expert on information technology, as well as a software engineer, an entrepreneur and a former game programmer. Webster is a 1978 graduate of Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in computer science. He also did graduate work in computer science at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in southeast Houston, Texas.

Tim Gill (born October 18, 1953 in Hobart, Indiana) is an American computer software entrepreneur and gay rights activist. Early in his life, Gill showed both interest and talent in computer science first at Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, eventually studying the subject at University of Colorado at Boulder. After two jobs in high-tech at HP and a consulting services firm, Gill started his company, Quark, with a $2000 loan from his parents.

Ray Tobey (born c. 1965) is an American computer game and video game programmer best known for writing the first arcade-style combat flight simulator game, "Skyfox" (1984). After taking a 6-week summer computer class at school when he was 13, Tobey saved for a year to purchase a Commodore PET 2001 for $800. He learned BASIC and then 6502 machine language, having graduated to an Apple II.

Mark P. McCahill (born February 7, 1956) has been involved in developing and popularizing a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s. Mark McCahill received a BA in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota in 1979, spent one year doing analytical environmental chemistry, and then joined the University of Minnesota Computer Center's microcomputer support group as an Apple II and CDC Cyber programmer.

Sherwin A. Steffin is an American educational software designer and best known for founding software publisher Edu-Ware Services. After earning a bachelor's degree in experimental psychology, Steffin served as a detached street gang worker in Detroit during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He then taught junior high school while pursuing a master's degree in instructional technology, served as a district media director for a suburban Chicago school district, …

Roger Powell was a member of the rock band Utopia, led by Todd Rundgren and featuring players Kasim Sulton and Willie Wilcox, among others. Powell played keyboards and synthesizers for the band from 1974 until its disbanding in 1985, playing, writing, and singing on 10 of the band's 11 albums. For its live shows, Powell created the Powell Probe; the first remote, …

Randi J. Rost (born February 24, 1960) is a computer graphics professional and frequent contributor to graphics standards. He was an early participant in the personal computer industry, creating a game called King Cribbage for the Apple II computer in 1981 and publishing numerous instructional and review articles in trade publications. He currently manages relationships with a variety of game developers and other graphics ISVs at Intel Corporation.

Mark Robbins (b. Grand Rapids, Michigan 1947) is a computer software author, inventor, visionary, entrepreneur, and reporter. Robbins received a Bachelors Degree from California State University at Northridge in 1975. In 1971, Robbins co-founded the original Dial-A-Joke telephone service. He designed and built the equipment which answered the phone and delivered the jokes. He also designed and built the answering machine used for the Superfone service run by the writer, …

Gene Mosher (born January 13, 1949 in Watertown, New York) is best known for inventing the graphic touchscreen point of sale computer and is a pioneer of human-computer interaction, including application-specific GUIs and network computing. Mosher is a 1966 graduate of Xaverius College in Borgerhout, Belgium and received a Bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1972.

Bruce Shoop is a minister, graphic artist, internet pioneer, entrepreneur, and campaigner against the US drug policy. In 2006, he founded the Green Earth Ministries, a chapter of the THC Ministry and religion that considers cannabis to be a sacrament. William Bruce Shoop was born on 23 May, 1967 in Miami, Florida. Raised and schooled in metropolitan Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, he graduated from Miami Norland high school in 1985, …

Thomas "Thom" Eugene Foulks (August 27, 1935 - March 24, 2004) was a multi-talented and somewhat famous individual. He made a living as a disk jockey, editor of military base newspapers, manager/news director of AFRTS (Air Force Radio Television) stations in Iceland and the Philippines, daily newspaper front-page editor, television videographer and news anchorman (local CBS - KKTV and NBC - KOAA affiliates), TV public affairs director, …