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Homestead High School, Los Altos, Calif
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Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple Computer, a leader in the field of personal computing which he co-founded in 1976
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National Technology Medal from President Reagan
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the Academy-Award-winning animation studio he co-founded in 1986
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Jefferson Award for Public Service in 1987
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Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. magazine in 1989
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His wife is Laurene Powell. They met at Stanford University while he was speaking at a class.
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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.
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NeXT Software was sold to Apple Computer in February 1997. The core of the NextStep OS was a new technology called object-oriented programming (OOP). OOP lets programmers write complex software programs in a fraction of the usual time