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Scott Forstall is an American software engineer, best known for leading the original software development team for the iPhone and iPad. Having spent his career first at NeXT and then Apple, he was the senior vice president (SVP) of iOS Software at Apple Inc. from 2007 until October 2012. ==Early life and education== According to a Businessweek article, Forstall grew up in a middle-class family in Kitsap County, Washington, the second-born of three boys to a registered-nurse mother Jeanne and an engineer father Tom Forstall who are Presbyterians.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Act III - CKPC )〕 His older brother Bruce is also a senior software design engineer, at Microsoft. A gifted student for whom skills such as programming "came easily where they were difficult for others", Forstall qualified for advanced-placement science and math class in junior high school, and gained experience programming on Apple IIes.〔 He was skipped forward a year, entering high school early, where classmates recall his immersion in competitive chess, history, and general knowledge, on occasion competing at the state level. He achieved an impressive 4.0 GPA and earned the position of valedictorian, a position he shared with the woman who would later become his wife. He had established the goal of being a "designer of high-tech electronics equipment", as he proclaimed in an interview with a local newspaper.〔 Enrolling at Stanford University, he graduated in 1991 with a degree in symbolic systems. The next year he received his master's degree in computer science, also from Stanford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://tusb.stanford.edu/2007/09/junior_convocation_featuring_i.html )〕 During his time at Stanford, Forstall was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scott Forstall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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