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Steve Jobs. Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar. He was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along ...
The Other (2008) by David Guterson depicts a Reed College student who drops out after his freshman year to live a solitary life in the Olympic Mountains. [150] [151] Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson is a biography commissioned by Steve Jobs, a Reed College dropout, and contains a chapter on Jobs's experience attending Reed College. [152]
Reality distortion field. Reality distortion field (RDF) is a term first used by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs 's charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project. [1] Tribble said that the term came from the Star Trek [1] episode "The Menagerie", in which it is used ...
Steve Jobs was an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s who, along with Steve Wozniak, founded Apple Computer.Before and after his death in 2011, Jobs was known as a counter-culture figure within the computer industry, and as a perfectionist who could be demanding of his colleagues and employees—sometimes to the point of cruelty.
Doyle Owl. The Doyle Owl, or Strigidus cementus, according The New (Olde) Reed Almanac, "is the unofficial mascot of Reed College (the official mascot being the griffin )". [1] It is a concrete statue of an owl, roughly three-foot high, and 300 pound (136 kg), that originally occupied the lawn of a Portland resident. [2]
Reed founded $200 million venture fund named Yosemite in August 2023. [4] The venture fund is focused on cancer treatments. Named after the park where Reed Jobs' parents were married in 1991, the fund raised money from John Doerr, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and M.I.T. [5] Yosemite is a subsidiary of the Emerson Collective established in 2004 by Laurene ...
Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs is the authorized self-titled biography of American business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request of Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN and Time who had previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. [1][2] Based on more than 40 ...
Jobs is a 2013 American biographical drama film based on the life of Steve Jobs, from 1974 while a student at Reed College to the introduction of the iPod in 2001. [3] It is directed by Joshua Michael Stern, written by Matt Whiteley, and produced by Stern and Mark Hulme.