Ted Hoff

Ted Hoff

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8290224w/BackgroundMarcian Ted HoffBorn October 28, 1937Rochester, New YorkAlways interested in electronicsCredits interest in electronics to Popular Science magazine

Education/ Work ExperienceBachelors degree electrical engineering SFSUReceived scholarship to Stanford MS & PhDFirst two patents while still in schoolWorked for General Railway Signal Corp.Worked for Intel 1968-1988

InventionsLeast means square filterMicroprocessor

Least Means Square FilterCo-inventor with Dr. Bernard WidrowAdaptive algorithm used for adaptive signal processingHelped many breakthrough projectsStill used today

Microprocessor1969 Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation, 12 chipsHoff the first EVER to have the ideaCo-inventors Federico Faggin and Stan MazorSilicon design

http://www.digicamhistory.com/1970s.htmlHow This Helped computersHad as much computing power as the first computerSize of a finger nail12 chips reduced to 1 chipCircuit line 10,000 nanometersHuman hair 100,000 nanometersSmallest micro processer design ever

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Awards1954 Westinghouse Science Talent Search Finalist1979 Stuart Ballantine Medal1980 IEE Cleda Brunetti Award1996 Franklin Institute Certificate Of Merit2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation2011 IEEE/ RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award

2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bhczxdvAww4

Microprocessor video

Sourceshttp://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