CHICAGO, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CME
Group's Center for Innovation today announced that Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak is the 14th recipient
of the CME Group Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award. CME Group
presented the award at the 11th annual Global Financial Leadership
Conference in Naples, Fla., on
Tuesday, Nov. 13.
The award recognizes Wozniak for his significant contributions
to computer science and technology. In 1976, Wozniak and
Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer
Inc. and debuted Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The following
year, the company introduced the Apple II personal computer,
featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics,
and a floppy disk drive, helping launch the personal computer
industry. Wozniak is well-known as a Silicon Valley icon and
prominent philanthropist.
The CME Group Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award strives to
celebrate innovation that, through practical application, has had a
positive impact on the economic well-being of individuals,
industries or nations. This award honors an individual or group
whose innovative ideas, products or services have created
significant change to markets, commerce or trade.
"Steve Wozniak's impact on modern
technology cannot be overstated," said Leo
Melamed, CME Group Chairman Emeritus and co-founder of the
Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award. "His pioneering innovations in
personal computing still help power our economy today."
"I am honored to join a distinguished roster of recipients of
the CME Group Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award," said Wozniak. "I
have dedicated my career to building a better world through
technology. Only through fostering innovation can we develop the
solutions that will meet the economic and business challenges of
tomorrow."
In recognition of his achievements, Wozniak was awarded
the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and was inducted into the
Inventors Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded the prestigious
Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for
single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then
redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics
toward inspiring grade school students and their teachers. In 2014,
he was awarded the Hoover Medal, an honor given for "outstanding
extra-career services by engineers to humanity," and was welcomed
into the IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame.
In October 2017, Wozniak
co-founded Woz U, a tech education platform dedicated to educating
and training people in employable digital skills without putting
them into years of debt. He also started the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum,
Silicon Valley Ballet, and Children's Discovery Museum of
San Jose.
Wozniak holds a degree in electrical engineering/computer
science from UC Berkeley.
The CME Group Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award recipient,
formerly known as the Fred Arditti Innovation Award, is chosen
annually by members of the Competitive Markets Advisory Council
(CMAC). The award's namesakes are Leo
Melamed, in recognition of his revolutionary achievements in
introducing financial futures instruments to the world in 1972; and
former CME Group Chief Economist Fred
Arditti, who was instrumental in developing the IMM index
upon which CME Group's Eurodollar futures contract, the world's
most actively traded futures contract, was based. Past
recipients of the award can be found on the CME Group Center for
Innovation website.
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