Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24,1955 – October 5,2011)was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor.He was co-founder,chairman,and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006,following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.In the late 1970s,Jobs—along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak,Mike Markkula and others—designed,developed,and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers,the Apple II series.In the early 1980s,Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface,which led to the creation of the Macintosh.After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985,Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT,a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets.Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded,and he served as its CEO from 1997 until August 2011.
史蒂芬·保罗·乔布斯（1955年2月24日－2011年10月5日）,简称为史蒂夫·乔布斯（英语：Steve Jobs）,苹果公司的创办人之一,并曾任苹果公司的董事会主席、首席运行官,同时也是前皮克斯动画工作室的董事长及首席执行官（皮克斯动画工作室已于2006年被迪士尼收购）.乔布斯还曾是迪士尼公司的董事会成员和最大个人股东.乔布斯的生涯极大地影响了硅谷风险创业的传奇,他将美学至上的设计理念在全世界推广开来.他对简约及便利设计的推崇为他赢得了许多忠实追随者.乔布斯与沃兹尼亚克共同使个人电脑在70年代末至80年代初流行开来,他也是第一个看到鼠标的商业潜力的人.乔布斯在1985年苹果高层权力斗争中离开苹果并成立了NeXT公司,瞄准专业市场.1997年,苹果收购NeXT,乔布斯回到苹果接任首席执行官.2011年8月24日,乔布斯宣布辞去苹果首席执行官职务,10月5日因身患胰脏癌去世,得年56岁.
