Stanley Mazor

Stanley "Stan" Mazor ( born October 22, 1941 in Chicago) is an American computer engineer. He was significantly involved 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 as a programmer for the IBM 1620 computer of the University of. From 1964 he worked 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 computer icon ( a project for a High Level Language Computer ), for which he received a patent.

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

In 1974 he moved to the branch of Intel to Brussels and worked as an engineer in contact with customers of the Company ( Field Applications Engineer), but the following year went back to California to intern to teach at Intel in the Technical Training Group. He 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 in 2009 and the National Medal of Technology by Hoff and Faggin with Hoff, Faggin and Shima.

Writings

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