Stanley Mazor

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Stan Mazor
University of Santa Clara

Stanley Mazor is an American microelectronics engineer. He is one of the co-inventors of the world's first

Ted Hoff, Masatoshi Shima, and Federico Faggin
.

Early years

Mazor was born to Jewish parents, As a youth, Mazor's family moved to

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.

Career summary

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. (The "Symbol" computer was never patented as a complete unit, and the U.S. Patent Office lists only four patented sub-units: 3,643,225: Memory Control System; 3,643,227: Job Flow and Multiprocessor Operation Control System; 3,577,130: Means for Limiting Field Length of Computed Data; and 3,647,348: Hardware-Oriented Paging Control System. Mazor's name is on that last one.) In 1969, he joined the year-old

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
.

Although there was an initial reluctance on the part of Intel marketing to undertake the support and sale of these products to general customers, Hoff and Mazor joined Faggin, designer of the 4004 and project leader, and actively campaigned for their announcement to the industry and helped define a support strategy that the company could accept. Intel finally announced the 4004 in 1971.

After working as a computer designer for six years, Mazor moved to

University of Santa Clara. Various teaching engagements took him around the world, including Stellenbosch, South Africa; Stockholm, Sweden; and Nanjing, China. In 1984, Mazor joined Silicon Compiler Systems. In 2008, Mazor was the Training Director of BEA Systems
.

Publications

In 1993, then working at Synopsys, he coauthored, with Patricia Langstraat, a book on chip design language entitled A Guide to VHDL. Over the course of his career, Mazor has also published fifty articles.

Recognition

Shima and Mazor at the Computer History Museum's 2009 Fellows Award event

Along with his co-inventors Hoff, Faggin, and Shima, he has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the

National Medal of Technology
by President Barack Obama.

References

  1. ^ Stan Mazor 2009 Fellow Archived 10 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ CHM. "Stan Mazor – CHM Fellow Award Winner". Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015."Computer History Museum | Fellow Awards - Stan Mazor". Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.

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