N.B. This Biography is assembled from personal interviews, as well as transcriptions from ORAL HISTORY videos 1 and 2, recorded in November 2011. Of these, Irwin Hoffman said,

“We made these DVDs because we wanted you to know that hard work can be fun. I was so lucky to have two careers, both of which I enjoyed. Never a day went by when I didn’t enjoy going to work, even those days that were very long days—8 to 12 hours long—and I hope this will encourage you to work hard at whatever you do. I have a favorite saying, ‘Whatever you do, do it well.’ And that’s what I did. I did it as good as I could do it.”

• FAMILY AND EARLY EDUCATION
• TENNIS
• THE KOREAN WAR AND ROTC
  • METEOROLOGY AND RADIATION
  • PLAYING TENNIS FOR THE AIR FORCE
• AFTER THE WAR
• TEACHING CAREER IN THE DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS
  • ADVANCED PLACEMENT CALCULUS
  • COMPUTERS AND MATHEMATICS, PART I
• DECLARING FOR A PH.D.
• TENNIS TEACHER
  • TAKING KIDS TO WORK AT THE COUNTRY CLUB
  • MENTORSHIP TRAINING IN TENNIS
• COMPUTER MATHEMATICS, PART II
• DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE 1960S
• DENVER FLOOD AND IBM COMPUTER
• COMPUTER JOBS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
  • STUDENT WITH A JOB AND A TAX PROBLEM
  • CHARLES TUCKER “HEAVY DUTY”
• OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL COMPUTER
• NO TEXTBOOKS
• BACK TO BASICS
• CARPOOL PROGRAM
• ATARI & COMPUTER LAB
  • COMPUTER LAB
• GRANT FROM US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• TRANSLATION PROGRAM ON APPLES
• EARLY INTERNET COMMUNICATION
• HOURS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL
• PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS TEACHING
• DAMAGE OF BACK-TO-BASICS TO COMPUTER CLASSES
  
• HELP FROM IBM TO WRITE GRANT PROPOSAL
• NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATH
• CREATION OF MAGNET SCHOOL
• CONSULTANT AT IBM AFTER RETIREMENT IN 1989