One of many lecturers for the A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series. Ted Hoff took the inner circuitry of a computer and shrank it down onto a single chip of silicon: the microprocessor, a computer-on-a-chip. He realized that the memory, the calculating, and the processing functions of a computer could all be contained in a single circuit if only the architecture could be built simply enough. He designed that architecture and so invented the first microprocessor, the chip that is essentially the "brains" in all of today's computers. Marcian Edward Ted Hoff, Jr. attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an undergraduate, and during his summer breaks, worked for Rochesters General Railway Company, where he developed his first two patents. After receiving his bachelors degree in electrical engineering in 1958, he received a National Science Foundation Fellowship to attend Stanford University, where he earned an MS and PhD in 1959 and 1962, respectively, both in electrical engineering. He stayed on to work at Stanford for another four years conducting research on neural networks and integrated circuits. In 1968, Hoff joined Intel as its twelfth employee. Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology cet.berkeley.edu
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