[Mitworld] New: iWoz: Steve Wozniak's new book, Chomsky on the Middle East

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 11 | November 22, 2006
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[IWOZ: FROM COMPUTER GEEK TO CULTURE ICON:
 HOW I INVENTED THE PERSONAL COMPUTER, CO-FOUNDED APPLE,
 AND HAD FUN DOING IT]

Woz tells the story of the beginnings of Apple Computer, from creating
pong games to putting color on a screen, and the big eureka moment when
"games became software." A must see.

SPEAKER: Steve Wozniak Co-Founder, Apple Computer Founder, Chairman and
CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz)


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/400/>

[QUOTE]
"I always liked to put a little fun in things, so I had two
programmed pong chips that added up to 256 bytes, but what would happen
is if you missed the ball it would display a four-letter word on the
screen.... like 'darn.'"

--Steve Wozniak


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[THE CURRENT CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST]

Chomsky shares his views on recent events in the Middle East.

SPEAKER: Noam Chomsky Institute Professor; Professor of Linguistics


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/403/>

[QUOTE]
"...in Iran's neighboring states, (Turkey, Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan) the public prefers a nuclear armed Iran to any U.S. military
action."

--Noam Chomsky


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