Stanley Mazor

Masatoshi Shima (left) and Stan Mazor (right) in the Computer History Museum in 2009

Stanley "Stan" Mazor (born October 22, 1941 in Chicago ) is an American computer engineer. He was instrumental in the development of the Intel 4004 , the first commercial microprocessor .

life and work

Mazor studied mathematics at San Francisco State University , where he became interested in computers as a programmer for the university's IBM 1620. From 1964 he was at Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View as a programmer and later a computer engineer and computer architect. He was involved in the development of the Symbol Computer (a project for a high level language computer ) for which he received a patent.

In 1969 he went to Intel , where he assisted Ted Hoff with the design of the 4004 and in 1970 became part of the design team around Federico Faggin (with Masatoshi Shima ). He wrote software for the 4004 and suggested the 8-bit Intel 8008 microprocessor . He was also a co-developer of the Intel 8080 .

In 1974 he moved to the Intel branch in Brussels and worked as an engineer in contact with customers of the company ( Field Applications Engineer ), but went back to California the following year to teach internally at Intel in the Technical Training Group . He has also taught at Stanford University and Santa Clara University and at various universities around the world (Sweden, South Africa, China).

In the 1980s he worked for Silicon Compiler Systems (from 1984) and Synopsys . In 2008 he was Training Director at the software company BEA Systems .

He is a fellow of the Computer History Museum . In 1997 he received the Kyoto Prize with Hoff, Faggin and Shima and in 2009 the National Medal of Technology with Hoff and Faggin.

Fonts

• A guide to VHDL . Kluwer 1992, 2nd edition 1993.

Web links

• Biography at the Computer History Museum