Marcian Hoff
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Marcian Edward Hoff
American computer engineer (1937–
Hoff gained his doctorate in 1962 at Stanford, where he worked for a further six years as a research associate. In 1968 he was invited by Robert Noyce to join his newly formed semiconductor firm, Intel.
Noyce had earlier shown how to assemble a large number of transistors into an integrated circuit (IC). Shortly after joining Intel, Hoff was asked to help some Japanese engineers design a number of IC chips to be used in desktop calculators.
Hoff proposed a calculator that could perform simple hardware instructions but could store complex sequences of these instructions in read-only memory (ROM) on a chip. The result of his idea was the first microprocessor – the Intel 4004 – released in 1971. Despite initial debate about its use and marketability, it became the forerunner of a whole range of advanced microprocessors, leading to a new generation of computers.
Hoff left Intel in 1982 to move to the computer company Atari to investigate new products. When Atari was sold in 1984 Hoff set up as an independent consultant.
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Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. (born October 28, 1937 in Rochester, New York), is one of the inventors of the microprocessor.[1][2] Hoff joined Intel in 1967 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of using a "universal processor" rather than a variety of custom-designed circuits.[citation needed] His insight started the microprocessor revolution in the early 1970s.[citation needed] He is frequently credited with having invented the microprocessor in 1971, although he proposed the architectural idea and an instruction set formulated with Stanley Mazor in 1969. It was Federico Faggin who, in 1970-1971, independently from Hoff, developed the silicon-gate design methodology and did the actual chip design that was essential to the realization of the first microprocessor[citation needed] In 1985, Hoff was named the first Intel Fellow, which is the highest technical position in the company.[citation needed] He stayed in that position until 1988.[citation needed]
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Education & work history
He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1958, and he applied for his first two patents based on work done for the General Railway Signal Corp. of Rochester, New York during the summers of his undergraduate study.[citation needed] He then received a National Science Foundation Fellowship to enroll in Stanford University, where he received his master's degree in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1962.[citation needed] As part of his Ph.D. dissertation, Hoff co-invented the least mean squares filter with Bernard Widrow.[citation needed]
Popular culture
Dr. Hoff was featured in an Intel advertisement, calling him the "rock star" of Intel and comparing him to the rock stars of American culture.[citation needed]
Awards
In 1954, he was one of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search (now Intel STS) finalists.[3] He was awarded the Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1979, the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award in 1980, and the Franklin Institute Certificate of Merit in 1996. He was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 1996 and received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2009 from President Barack Obama. He was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum in 2009.[4] He received the 2011 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Inventor Ted Hoff Biography.
- ^ Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff.
- ^ "Intel STS Archive - 1954". Society for Science & the Public. http://www.societyforscience.org/sts/history/1954. Retrieved February 27, 2012.
- ^ Marcian "Ted" Hoff: 2009 Fellow Awards Recipient, Computer History Museum website.
- ^ "IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award Recipients". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/documents/maxwell_rl.pdf. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
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