The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the Center for Science, Technology, and Society offer programs that serve the University's Catholic, Jesuit ethos, and identity.

He helped the new company obtain credit and venture capital, brought in Michael Scott as the first president and CEO, then took the job himself from 1981 to 1983 despite having promised his wife that he would only stay at Apple for four years, and that he would retire by 1984 Markkula served as chairman from 1985 until 1997, when a new board was formed after Jobs returned to the company.

He wrote several early Apple II programs, served as a beta tester for Apple hardware and software, and Wozniak designed the Disk II floppy disk drive system after Markkula found that a checkbook-balancing program he had written loaded too slowly from a data cassette.

The Independent Institute is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Mencken Awards, seven Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Awards, the Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association, two IPPY Awards from Independent Publisher Magazine, and a 4M Highest Rating for Ethics in Social and Public Policy from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

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After his stint at Apple Computer, he continued on to found Echelon Corporation, ACM Aviation, San Jose Jet Center and Rana Creek Habitat Restoration and to endow the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he now chairs the Board.

Apple Inc. uses a " John Appleseed " character as a John Smith in many of its recent adverts, video tutorials, and keynote presentation examples ; this was also the alias of Mike Markkula under which he published several programs for the Apple II.

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* The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics provides an academic forum for research and dialogue concerning all areas of applied ethics.

Later that year, venture capitalist Arthur Rock and Mike Markkula helped develop a business plan and convert the partnership to a corporation.

Other notable individuals are author Jean M. Auel, historian Max Dimont, politician Emil Hurja, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, U. S. Communist Party leader Gus Hall ( originally Arvo Gustav Halberg ), mathematician Lars Ahlfors, musicians Dave Mustaine and Jaco Pastorius, computer scientists Linus Torvalds and Alfred Aho, co-founder of Apple Mike Markkula, astronaut Timothy L. Kopra, officer Larry Thorne, musician Einar Aaron Swan, ice hockey player Matt Niskanen and serial killer Aileen Wuornos.

Formerly director of manufacturing at National Semiconductor, Scott was persuaded by Mike Markkula to take the CEO position at Apple, as the co-founders — Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak — were both seen as insufficiently experienced for the job at the time.

When Apple had another major reorganization in the fall of 1980, it was terminated again, but Jef pleaded with Scott and Markkula for more time, and was granted three more months to show that he was really onto something.

Following this abrupt event, he was moved to vice chairman, a title with little power, and Mike Markkula, the man who had hired Scott, replaced him.

Armas Clifford " Mike " Markkula, Jr. ( born February 11, 1942 ) is an American entrepreneur who was an angel investor and second CEO of Apple Computer, Inc., providing early critical funding and managerial support.

"— was not interested in funding Apple, but mentioned Jobs ' new company to Markkula.

Jobs visited him and convinced Markkula of the market for the Apple II and personal computers in general.

In 1977, Markkula brought his business expertise along with US $ 250, 000 ($ 80, 000 as an equity investment in the company and $ 170, 000 as a loan ) and became a one-third owner of Apple and employee number 3.

Wozniak, who helped create the first two Apple computers, credits Markkula for the success of Apple more than himself.

In 1985 Markkula took John Sculley's side in a dispute with Jobs, causing the latter to leave the company, and in 1993 he helped to force Sculley out.

In addition to providing " adult supervision " to the younger Jobs and Wozniak, as a trained engineer Markkula also possessed technical skills.

He also received a Master of Science degree from Texas A & I College and a Bachelor of Science degree from Southwestern State College, Weatherford, Okla..

From 1976 to 1980, Watterson attended Kenyon College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, while developing his art skills and contributing cartoons to the college newspaper.

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

There is no evidence Oxford ever received a Bachelor of Arts degree.

The Bachelor of Science diploma received at graduation is issued by Harvey Mudd College.

He enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1966 ; he graduated from the university in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in Magic, becoming the first and only person to have ever received any kind of academic degree in Magic from an accredited university.

Having spent his formative years in France, where he attended the American School of Paris, he returned to the United States to attend the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966.

He graduated with a BA in 1939, and received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1942.

Lin studied at Yale University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 and a Master of Architecture degree in 1986.

In 1985, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer mathematics.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944, and his Ph.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia University ( Columbia College ) in 1958.

He remained in the area and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Hartwick College in 1979.

She then enrolled at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition, Performance, and Education.

His family moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1920, and he lived there until he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry at the University of Kentucky in 1941.

Virginia received her Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College in 1910, a Master's degree in education from Columbia University in 1912, and a doctorate from Fordham University.

Tyndale began a Bachelor of Arts degree at Magdalen Hall ( later Hertford College ) of Oxford University in 1506 and received his B. A.

Benford received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1963 from University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, followed by a Master of Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1965, and a doctorate there in 1967.

Since 1993, Lord Mayors have not received any automatic honours upon appointment ; instead, they have been created Knights Bachelor upon retirement, although Gordon Brown's government broke with tradition by awarding Ian Luder the CBE after his term of office in 2009, and the following year Nick Anstee declined the offer of any national honour.

Menem enrolled in the National University of Córdoba, and received the degree of " Abogado ", equivalent to a Bachelor of Laws, in 1955.

He had received his Bachelor of Arts degree by 1598, and was a fellow and MA by 1600 ( though Bernard claims he did not gain his MA till 1601 ).

Stevenson received his Bachelor of Laws degree from Northwestern in 1926 and passed the Illinois State Bar examination that year.

Witten attended the Park School of Baltimore ( class of ' 68 ), and received his Bachelor of Arts with a major in history and minor in linguistics from Brandeis University in 1971.

In 1938, Szasz moved to the United States, where he attended the University of Cincinnati for his Bachelor of Arts in medicine, and received his medical degree from the same university in 1944.

After attending Loyola High School in Montreal – where he met Bora Karaman, one of his lifetime fellows and also mentors-Brzezinski entered McGill University in 1945 to obtain both his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees ( received in 1949 and 1950 respectively ).