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http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8290224w/. Ted Hoff. Background. Marcian “Ted” Hoff Born October 28, 1937 Rochester, New York Always interested in electronics Credits interest in electronics to Popular Science magazine. Education/ Work Experience.
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Background • Marcian “Ted” Hoff • Born October 28, 1937 • Rochester, New York • Always interested in electronics • Credits interest in electronics to Popular Science magazine
Education/ Work Experience • Bachelor’s degree electrical engineering SFSU • Received scholarship to Stanford MS & PhD • First two patents while still in school • Worked for General Railway Signal Corp. • Worked for Intel 1968-1988
Inventions • Least means square filter • Microprocessor
Least Means Square Filter • Co-inventor with Dr. Bernard Widrow • Adaptive algorithm used for adaptive signal processing • Helped many breakthrough projects • Still used today
Microprocessor • 1969 Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation, 12 chips • Hoff the first EVER to have the idea • Co-inventors Federico Faggin and Stan Mazor • Silicon design http://www.digicamhistory.com/1970s.html
How This Helped computers • Had as much computing power as the first computer • Size of a finger nail • 12 chips reduced to 1 chip • Circuit line 10,000 nanometers • Human hair 100,000 nanometers • Smallest micro processer design ever
Awards • 1954 Westinghouse Science Talent Search Finalist • 1979 Stuart Ballantine Medal • 1980 IEE CledaBrunetti Award • 1996 Franklin Institute Certificate Of Merit • 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation • 2011 IEEE/ RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award
Microprocessor video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bhczxdvAww4
Sources http://www.google.com/search?safe=active&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&q=Least+means+square+filter&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.& http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Ted_Hoff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcian_Hoff http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/marcian-ted-hoff-phd-62-ee http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-story-of-intel-4004.html