Co-Founder of Apple Computer to Speak April 5 at Manhattanville College's Castle Conversations

Purchase, NY March 22, 2010 -- Steve Wozniak, Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist, who designed Apple Inc.’s first line of products, Apple I and Apple II, and who in 1976 co-founded Apple Inc. with Steven Jobs, will speak at Manhattanville College April 5, at 8 p.m. in the second of this year’s highly popular Castle Conversations public forums.

Wozniak is an inventor, electronics engineer and programmer who was instrumental in launching the personal computer industry. In the past few decades he has been in various business and philanthropic ventures, focusing primarily on computer capabilities in schools, stressing hands-on learning and encouraging creativity for students.

He was in 2000 inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame. He founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. He is currently chief scientist at Primary Data, and is a published author with the release of his New York Times best selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon.

Castle Conversations, a speakers’ series, engages, challenges, and enlightens the residents of Westchester and Fairfield counties with new ideas from the nation’s top journalists, scientists, historians, artists, and business entrepreneurs.

“No other forum like this exists in Westchester and Fairfield counties,” said Jon C. Strauss, Ph.D., president of Manhattanville College. “We want the speakers to stimulate discussions about the radically changing world in which we live. It is our way of reaching out to the community, building relationships, and sharing with our neighbors the ideas of the brightest minds in America.”

Upcoming Castle Conversation speakers are: Twyla Tharp, founder of her own internationally known dance company, on September 20; and Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, on November 29. More information about how to purchase tickets to Castle Conversations, which begin at 8 p.m., can be obtained at 914.323.1277 or CastleConversations.org. Subscriptions for all four talks start at $250. Individual talks are $75.

About Manhattanville College:

Manhattanville College (www.manhattanville.edu) is an independent, co-educational liberal arts institution dedicated to academic excellence and social and civic action. Manhattanville prepares students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community. Located just 30 minutes from New York City, Manhattanville serves 1,700 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students from more than 50 countries and 30 states. Founded in 1841, the College offers more than 50 undergraduate areas of study in the arts and sciences, and offers graduate programs in Education, Business, Creative Writing, as well as Continuing and Executive Education programs.