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 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
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
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
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AWARDS 1954 Westinghouse Science Talent Search Finalist 1979 Stuart Ballantine Medal 1980 IEE Cleda Brunetti Award 1996 Franklin Institute Certificate Of Merit 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation 2011 IEEE/ RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award
2009 NATIONAL MEDAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION jj
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