His Latest Gig: Wozniak Will Do The Techie Tango On TV

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will be a competitor on the upcoming "Dancing with the Stars" television series that pairs celebrities with professional dancers in a weekly competition. Wozniak will be one of 13 celebrities appearing on the ABC show that begins March 9.

Waltzing Wozniak will have his work cut out for him. He'll be competing against presumably more limber "stars," including Olympic gold medal winner Shawn Jones, former New York Giant Lawrence Taylor, popstar Jewel and Go-Go's lead singer, Belinda Carlisle. Each week the celebrities and their partners try to out-Fandango, -rumba and -cha cha the other stars and avoid getting voted off the stage by viewers.

Wozniak, of course, is most famous for co-founding Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs in 1976 and creating the Apple I and Apple II desktop computers in the mid-1970s. He stopped working at Apple full-time in 1987.

Wozniak, 58, was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1995 and was admitted to the Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2000. Since then, he's largely devoted his time to educational and philanthropic causes. But just last week he signed on as chief scientist with Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City startup developing solid-state storage technology.