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Hoff was awarded the Stibitz-Wilson Award from the American Computer & Robotics Museum in 1997. [16] He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1996 [17] and received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2009 from President Barack Obama.
Nov 16, 2019 · 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).
Awards Stuart Ballantine Medal (1979) Intel Fellow (the First, 1980–1983) Kyoto Prize (1997) National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2009) Computer History Museum Fellow (2009) [1] Scientific career
Apr 15, 2020 · In 1997, Hoff, along with Faggin, Mazor, and Shima, were awarded the Kyoto Prize, and in 2009, along with Faggin and Mazor, Hoff was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation...
Other honors include the Stuart Ballantine Medal from the Franklin Institute and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee Marcian Hoff led the team at Intel that defined the architecture of the microprocessor in which he invented.
Together, four engineers (Dr. Faggin, Dr. Hoff, Mr. Mazor and Dr. Shima) developed the world’s first microprocessor, the 4004. The four pioneers demonstrated that by integrating a few semiconductor chips, a microcomputer could be created which could perform a wide variety of functions.
one of the inventors of the microprocessor. 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 revolution in the early 1970s.
