Mark E. Dean

Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957 in Jefferson City , Tennessee ) is an American electrical engineer who led the team at IBM that developed the ISA bus .

Dean's grandfather was a high school director and his father was a warden at the Tennessee Valley Authority dam. He attracted attention early on due to his technical talent and built his first radios and computers as a student. Dean studied electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee ( Bachelor's degree 1979 with top marks), where he was also successful as an athlete, and at Florida Atlantic University ( Master's degree 1982). In 1992 he received his PhD from Stanford University . From 1980 he was at IBM, where he and his colleague Dennis Moeller soon developed the ISA bus, which was central to the development of the IBM PC . He also held three of the nine central patents for the IBM PC. He was then involved in the development of the successor models Personal System / 2 and the Color Graphics Adapter .

From 1997 he was director of the IBM research laboratory in Austin and director of advanced technology development for the IBM Enterprise Server Group (which developed the RS / 6000 series). At the research laboratory in Austin, he led the development of the first gigahertz processor. The crossing of the GHz mark was announced in February 1998. The chip was manufactured using CMOS technology and, at around 1 million, contained a relatively small number of transistors compared to Pentium chips from Intel or Power chips from IBM at the time. The processor was experimental in nature and was intended to demonstrate the feasibility of 1 GHz chips.

He later became Vice President for System Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center , Vice President of the IBM Storage Technology Group, Vice President of Hardware and Systems Architecture for the System and Technology Group (STG) of IBM in Tucson, and Vice President of the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José. He is currently CTO for IBM Middle East and Africa.

In 1995 he became the first African American to become an IBM Fellow . In 1997 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame with Moeller . In 2001 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering , in 2004 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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