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Even if you're not a video game enthusiast, you will enjoy our February Speaker Night with Al Alcorn, the inventor of the Pong game: 

The History of Atari from 1972 - 1982 

Al Alcorn is a Silicon Valley legend and the creator of Pong, the video game that launched an entire industry. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and studied electrical engineering at UC Berkeley. In 1972, he became the first engineer at Atari and built Pong as a training project, which quickly turned into the first major arcade hit. Al later became an Apple Fellow and went on to co-found several tech companies, contributing to early innovations in gaming, digital media, and interactive technology. Today, he is recognized as a true pioneer of the video game world. 

In 2009, he was chosen by IGN (IGN Entertainment Inc - video game entertainment website) as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.