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Technophiles plan to take over Lake Tahoe this week.
Gnomedex will host its fourth annual technology conference starting Thursday evening, with an anticipated 300 of the best and brightest in the world of computer engineering.
The event is billed as "Gnomedex 4: Geeks Gone Wild."
Among them, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak, 54, is slated to appear Friday at 2 p.m. as the keynote speaker - a story of success spun out of ingenuity.
Wozniak, who grew up in the Silicon Valley, earned a ham radio license in the sixth grade. After a stint with Hewlett Packard designing calculator chips, he teamed up with Steve Jobs to make history out of his garage with the first Apple in 1977.
The computer company spiraled into the giant corporation it is today.
Wozniak, a pilot, took a leave of absence from the corporation when he suffered injuries received in a plane crash.
Instead, he took an interest in major rock concerts - sponsoring the US Festivals. In 1983, the Woodstock-capacity concert brought out more than 200,000 people to a hillside outside of San Bernardino.
Eight years ago, he returned to Apple as an adviser.
"It's an Internet publishing who's who," said Chris Pirillo president of Gnomedex, a technology resources company based in Los Angeles. "We really saw Lake Tahoe as a destination."
This event may sound like music to the ears of advocates working to find a second economy for the South Shore - in part businesses formed out of one's garage, den or home office.
"This is exactly what we've been talking about," said Tahoe attorney Dennis Crabb of Tahoe Tomorrow, a grass-roots organization dedicated to economic and social change for the basin.
Conference topics cover the future of computer security, digital lifestyle, online advertising and blogging strategies, the latter speaking to Web wonks.
- Susan Wood can be reached at (530) 542-8009 or via e-mail at swood@tahoedailytribune.com
Gnomedex will host its fourth annual technology conference starting Thursday evening, with an anticipated 300 of the best and brightest in the world of computer engineering.
The event is billed as "Gnomedex 4: Geeks Gone Wild."
Among them, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak, 54, is slated to appear Friday at 2 p.m. as the keynote speaker - a story of success spun out of ingenuity.
Wozniak, who grew up in the Silicon Valley, earned a ham radio license in the sixth grade. After a stint with Hewlett Packard designing calculator chips, he teamed up with Steve Jobs to make history out of his garage with the first Apple in 1977.
The computer company spiraled into the giant corporation it is today.
Wozniak, a pilot, took a leave of absence from the corporation when he suffered injuries received in a plane crash.
Instead, he took an interest in major rock concerts - sponsoring the US Festivals. In 1983, the Woodstock-capacity concert brought out more than 200,000 people to a hillside outside of San Bernardino.
Eight years ago, he returned to Apple as an adviser.
"It's an Internet publishing who's who," said Chris Pirillo president of Gnomedex, a technology resources company based in Los Angeles. "We really saw Lake Tahoe as a destination."
This event may sound like music to the ears of advocates working to find a second economy for the South Shore - in part businesses formed out of one's garage, den or home office.
"This is exactly what we've been talking about," said Tahoe attorney Dennis Crabb of Tahoe Tomorrow, a grass-roots organization dedicated to economic and social change for the basin.
Conference topics cover the future of computer security, digital lifestyle, online advertising and blogging strategies, the latter speaking to Web wonks.
- Susan Wood can be reached at (530) 542-8009 or via e-mail at swood@tahoedailytribune.com
