Stanley Mazor
| Stan Mazor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 22, 1941 Chicago, Illinois |
| Fields |
Electrical engineering microprocessor |
| Institutions | Fairchild (1964) Intel (1969) Stanford University University of Santa Clara |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
| Known for | Intel 4004 Intel 8080 |
| Notable awards |
Kyoto Prize (1997) National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2009) Computer History Museum Fellow (2009) |
Stanley Mazor is an American microelectronics engineer who was born on 22 October 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the co-inventors of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, together with Ted Hoff, Masatoshi Shima, and Federico Faggin.
Mazor was born to Jewish parents, As a youth, Mazor's family moved to California, where he attended Oakland High School from which he graduated in 1959. He enrolled in San Francisco State University (SFSU), majoring in math and studying helicopter design and construction as a hobby. Mazor met his future wife Maurine at SFSU and they wed in 1962. Around the same time, he became interested in computers and learned to program SFSU’s IBM 1620 computer, taking a position as a professor’s assistant and teaching other students to use the technology. Meanwhile, he continued to study computer architecture in technical manuals outside of school.
In 1964, he became a programmer with Fairchild Semiconductor, followed by a position as computer designer in the Digital Research Department, where he co-patented “Symbol,” a high-level language computer.
In 1969, he joined the year-old Intel Corporation, and was soon assigned to work with Ted Hoff on a project to help define the architecture of a microprocessor—often dubbed a “computer-on-a-chip”—based on a concept developed earlier by Hoff. The Japanese calculator manufacturer Busicom asked Intel to complete the design and manufacture of a new set of chips. Credited along with Faggin, Hoff, and Masatoshi Shima of Busicom as co-inventor, Mazor helped define the architecture and the instruction set for the revolutionary new chip, dubbed the Intel 4004.
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