Marcian Hoff

Name: Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr.

Born: October 28, 1937, Rochester, New York

Computer-related contributions

• One of the inventors of the microprocessor.
• Came up with the idea of using a "universal processor" rather than various custom-designed circuits.
• Hoff joined Intel in 1967 as employee number 12.
• His insight started the microprocessor revolution in the early 1970s.
• As part of his Ph.D. dissertation, he co-invented the least mean squares filter with Bernard Widrow.

Honors and awards

• IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award (2011).
• Received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2009).
• Made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2009).
• Franklin Institute Certificate of Merit (1996).
• Named the first Intel Fellow, which is the highest technical position in the company. (1985).
• IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (1980).
• Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal (1979).
• Awarded the Stuart Ballantine Medal (1979).
• One of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search (now Intel STS) finalists (1954).