Marcian Edward Hoff

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Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff Jr. (born October 28, 1937 in Rochester , New York ) is an American electrical engineer and one of the inventors of the microprocessor .

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In 1958, he received his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . As an intern at General Railway Signal Corp. he received his first two patents. At Stanford University he received his Masters in 1959 and his Ph.D. in 1962. As part of his doctoral thesis, he and Professor Bernard Widrow invented the LMS algorithm . Both presented the Adaline model of a neural network in 1960 .

In 1968 Hoff went to Intel as employee number 12 . Around 1969 he had the idea of ​​a universal processor instead of specially developed circuits. Federico Faggin joined Intel in 1970 and developed the architectural idea for a groundbreaking silicon design that was the first microprocessor in a single chip. This happened independently of Hoff and his assistant Stan Mazor . In 1971, Faggin also prepared the first market launch of the Intel 4004 processor . Busicom's Masatoshi Shima assisted Faggin during the first six months of this development.

In 1980, Hoff was the senior technical director at Intel. In 1983 he became vice president of the computer company Atari Inc. and in 1985 an independent consultant. From 1990 to 2007 he was chief technologist at FTI Teklicon, Inc.

Awards

literature

  • Ted Hoff, “The Computer on a Chip”. In: Kendall Haven, Donna Clark: 100 Most Popular Scientists for Young Adults: Biographical Sketches and Professional Paths , Libraries Unlimited, Englewood 1999, ISBN 978-1-56308-674-8 , pp. 276-280

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Individual evidence

  1. computerhistory.org: Marcian Hoff. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 3, 2015 ; Retrieved April 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.computerhistory.org