Nationality American Alma mater Florida State University | Website ginasmith.com Known for Journalism | |
Full Name Regina Patricia Smith Education PhD, Clinical Psychology; MA, Psychology, BA, English, BS, Chemistry Occupation Author, Journalist, Entrepreneur Relatives Svetomir Đukić (maternal grandfather) Books iWoz: Computer Geek to C, The Genomics Age, FPGAs 101: Everythin, An Integrated Approach, Elvis Wants to KnowDi Similar Steve Wozniak, Leo Laporte, Eric Davis, William Randolph Hearst Profiles | ||
Gina Smith is an American entrepreneur, author, and journalist who co-wrote Steve Wozniak's 2006 autobiography iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It. She is also a co-founder and editorial director of aNewDomain, a technology news site. In 2001, Smith was named one of the 100 most influential people in technology by Upside Magazine.
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Technology journalism
From 1990 to 2000, Smith wrote the "Inside Silicon Valley" technology column in the San Francisco Sunday Chronicle. During that time, she was senior editor at PC/Computing magazine, and later, as of 1994, she was the editor-in-chief of IDG's Electronic Entertainment magazine. From 1993 to 1997, she hosted On Computers with Gina Smith and ABC Radio's "Connected with Gina Smith," a radio call-in show that ran in syndication.
In 1995, she co-hosted, with John Levine, an educational PBS special The Internet Show: Drivers' Education for the Internet Superhighway.
Also in 1995 ABC News hired Smith as a technology correspondent.
Smith hosted a daily tech news show on the Discovery Channel in 1996 and 1997 called Cyberlife.
In 1999 Smith joined CNET as anchor of the News.Com daily news show on CNBC.
In 2010, Smith returned to journalism as editor in chief of the online relaunch of Byte magazine as Byte.com.
Since 2011, she has been CEO of aNewDomain Media, which runs several news websites.
Business ventures
In 2000, Smith was named CEO of the New Internet Computer Company, which she co-founded with Larry Ellison. The firm closed in 2003.
In 2004 David Warthen appointed Smith president of Eye Games, a San Francisco-based video game technology company.