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In , Marcian Hoff was named the first Intel Fellow, and he remained at Intel until , when he became Vice President of Technology at....
Marcian Hoff
Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff Jr. (born October 28, 1937, in Rochester, New York) is one of the inventors of the microprocessor.[2]
Education and work history
Hoff received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1958.
He applied for his first two patents based on work done for the General Railway Signal Corp.
His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in ).
of Rochester, New York during the summers of his undergraduate study.[3] He received a National Science Foundation Fellowship to enroll in Stanford University, where he received his master's degree in 1959 and his Ph.D.
in 1962.[3] As part of his Ph.D. dissertation, Hoff co-invented the least mean squares filter and the ADALINE neural network with Bernard Widrow.[4]
Hoff joined Intel in 1968 as employee number 12 as "manager of applications research", and is credited with coming up with the idea of using a "universal processor" rather than a variety of custom-designed