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Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. (born October 28, 1937 in Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area....
), is one of the inventors of the microprocessor
Microprocessor

A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using Binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit Word ....
. Hoff, an engineer, joined Intel in 1967 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of a universal processor instead of custom-designed circuits. His insight started the microprocessor
Microprocessor

A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using Binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit Word ....
 revolution in the early 1970s. Commonly, he is credited with having invented the microprocessor in 1971, although he proposed the architectural idea and an instruction set formulated with Stanley Mazor
Stanley Mazor

Stanley Mazor is an American engineer who was born on 22 October 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the designers of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, together with Ted Hoff, Masatoshi Shima, and Federico Faggin....
 in 1969, and Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin

Federico Faggin is an Italy-born physicist/electrical engineer, principally responsible for the design of the first microprocessor and responsible for leading the Intel 4004 to its successful outcome and for promoting its marketing....
 independently created the innovative silicon design, essential to the realization of the microprocessor, in 1970-1971.






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Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. (born October 28, 1937 in Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area....
), is one of the inventors of the microprocessor
Microprocessor

A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using Binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit Word ....
. Hoff, an engineer, joined Intel in 1967 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of a universal processor instead of custom-designed circuits. His insight started the microprocessor
Microprocessor

A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using Binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit Word ....
 revolution in the early 1970s. Commonly, he is credited with having invented the microprocessor in 1971, although he proposed the architectural idea and an instruction set formulated with Stanley Mazor
Stanley Mazor

Stanley Mazor is an American engineer who was born on 22 October 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the designers of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, together with Ted Hoff, Masatoshi Shima, and Federico Faggin....
 in 1969, and Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin

Federico Faggin is an Italy-born physicist/electrical engineer, principally responsible for the design of the first microprocessor and responsible for leading the Intel 4004 to its successful outcome and for promoting its marketing....
 independently created the innovative silicon design, essential to the realization of the microprocessor, in 1970-1971. In 1985, Hoff was named the first Intel Fellow, the highest technical position in the company. He stayed in that position until 1988.

He gained his bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree

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 in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a Private university research university located in Troy, New York, New York, United States. RPI was founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer III for the "application of science to the common purposes of life", and is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world....
 in 1958. He received his first two patents while working during his undergraduate college summers for the General Railway Signal Corp. of Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area....
. He then received a National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering....
 Fellowship to enroll in Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, where he received his master's degree
Master's degree

A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
 (1959) and Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 (1962). As part of his Ph.D. dissertation, Hoff co-invented the Least mean squares filter
Least mean squares filter

Least mean squares algorithms are used in adaptive filters to find the filter coefficients that relate to producing the least mean squares of the error signal ....
 with Professor Bernard Widrow
Bernard Widrow

Bernard Widrow is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is the co-inventor of the Widrow-Hoff Least mean squares filter adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Marcian Hoff....
.

See also

  • Intel 4004
    Intel 4004

    The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit central processing unit released by Intel Corporation in 1971. The 4004 is the first complete CPU on one chip, the first commercially available microprocessor, a feat made possible by the use of the new silicon gate technology allowing the integration of a higher number of transistors and a faster speed than was pos...