Marcian Hoff
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.
Life and work
He received his bachelor's degree in 1958 in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As an intern at the General Railway Signal Corp.. He received his first two patents. At Stanford University, he earned his master's degree in 1959 and his Ph.D. in 1962 As part of his doctoral thesis, he was with Professor Bernard Widrow inventor of the LMS algorithm. Both presented in 1960 before the Adaline model of a neural network.
In 1968, Hoff as employee number 12 on Intel. Here he had around 1969 the idea of a universal processor instead of specially designed circuits. Federico Faggin came to Intel in 1970 and developed the architectural concept for a groundbreaking silicon design, which represented the first microprocessor in a single chip. This happened regardless of Hoff and Stan Mazor 's assistant. 1971 Faggin prepared before the first launch of the Intel 4004 processor. Masatoshi Shima of Busicom assisted Faggin during the first six months of this development.
1980 Hoff was the lead technical manager at Intel. In 1983 he was vice president of the computer company Atari Inc. in 1985 and an independent consultant. Since 1990 he is chief technologist at the FTI Teklicon, Inc.