"In a conversation after the event, Wozniak marveled at what he'd seen. "They were creating something to solve a problem they had with the world, and that's where you get the best products," he said. He likened the honorees' ingenuity to his own implementation of color graphics on 1977's Apple II, a killer feature at a time when other microcomputers could barely draw pictures in black and white."
"Wozniak has spent close to half a century being celebrated for his technical brilliance and irreplaceable role in bringing computing to the masses. Just three years after starting Apple with Steve Jobs (and, briefly, Ron Wayne), he received the Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award. Six years after that, he and Jobs won the National Medal of Technology, resulti"
On January 16, Steve Wozniak received the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award from the Tech Interactive in San Jose, California. The gala recognized organizations whose creations include a brain-computer interface that helps people with disabilities communicate, a forum enabling implanted BCI patients to shape best practices and ethics, a headset using ultrasound therapy to treat mental conditions, and a device that improves walking confidence for people with Parkinson's disease. Wozniak watched presentations with his wife, praised innovators for solving real-world problems, and compared their ingenuity to his Apple II color-graphics innovation that required no additional chips.
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