Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955).The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the Macintosh.In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox' s {Palo Alto Research Center}.He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design".The first Macintosh was released in January 1984.Jobs described it as insanely great.Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT.See also lithium lick, Mathematica.(1997-03-18)