American inventor and computer engineer
Mark Dean
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Born
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1957-03-02
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March 2, 1957
(age 67)
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Alma mater
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Occupation
| Computer engineer
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Organization
| IBM
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Spouse
| Denise Dean
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Parent(s)
| James Dean, Barbara Dean
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Mark E. Dean
(born March 2, 1957)
[1]
is an American
inventor
and
computer engineer
. He developed the
ISA
bus, and he led a design team for making a one-
gigahertz
computer processor
chip.
[2]
He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the
IBM personal computer
released in 1981.
[3]
In 1995, Dean was named the first ever
African-American
IBM Fellow
.
[4]
Dean was elected as a member into the
National Academy of Engineering
in 2001 for innovative and pioneering contributions to personal computer development.
In 2000, Mark discussed a hand held device that would be able to display media content, like a digital newspaper.
[5]
[6]
In August 2011, Dean stated that he uses a
tablet computer
instead of a PC in his blog.
[7]
[8]
Early life
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Dean was born in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Dean displayed an affinity for technology and invention at a young age.
[9]
His father, James, worked bob electrical equipment for
turbines
and
spillways
. James would often bring Mark with him on work trips, introducing him to engineering.
[10]
When Mark was young, he and his dad constructed a tractor from scratch.
[11]
In middle school, Mark had made up his mind on becoming a computer engineer.
[10]
Dean attended Jefferson City High School in Tennessee, where he excelled in both academics and athletics.
[9]
[12]
While in high school, during the 1970s, Mark built his own personal computer.
[5]
Recognition
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Dean is the first
[13]
African-American
to become an
IBM Fellow
, which is the highest level of technical excellence at the company. In 1997, he was inducted into the
National Inventors Hall of Fame
.
[12]
[14]
He was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering
in 2001.
[15]
In 1997, Dean was awarded the Black Engineer of the Year Presidents Award.
[16]
From August 2018 to July 2019, Dean was the interim dean of the UT's Tickle College of Engineering.
[17]
[18]
As of April 26, 2019, April 25 is now officially Mark Dean Day in
Knox County, Tennessee
.
[19]
Career
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Mark graduated with a bachelors in
electrical engineering
during 1979.
[20]
Soon after, Mark got a job at IBM as an engineer.
[5]
[20]
His first task at the company was to create a word processor adapter for IBM's Datamaster terminal.
[5]
During this time, he also created the ISA bus that allowed additional components to be connected to a PC. His work got him promoted in 1982 to chief engineer of PC design, where he worked with a team to develop the IBM PC.
[5]
In the same year, Mark earned his master's degree in electrical engineering.
[20]
17 years later, in 1999, Dean and his team developed a gigahertz microchip, the first in the world.
Dean was an IBM Vice President overseeing the company's
Almaden Research Center
in
San Jose, California
.
[15]
At one point, Mark was
CTO
for IBM Middle East and Africa.
[21]
He retired from the company in 2013 and became a professor at University of Tennessee.
[20]
Mark Dean is the John Fisher Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Tennessee
.
[20]
[22]
Dean now holds more than 20 patents,
[16]
[23]
and his work led to development of the
color PC monitor
.
[24]
Name of Patent
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Patent Number
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Date of Patent
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Color video display system having programmable border color
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4437092
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March 13, 1984
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Composite video color signal generation from digital color signals
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4442428
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April 10, 1984
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Microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices
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4528626
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July 9, 1985
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Refresh generator system for a dynamic memory
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4575826
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March 11, 1986
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Data processing system including a main processor and a co-processor and co-processor error handling logic
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4598356
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July 1, 1986
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Computer system including a page mode memory with decreased access time and method of operation thereof
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5034917
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July 23, 1991
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Method and apparatus for selectively posting write cycles using the 82385 cache controller
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5045998
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September 3, 1991
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Bidirectional buffer with latch and parity capability
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5107507
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April 21, 1992
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Control of pipelined operation in a microcomputer system employing dynamic bus sizing with 80386 processor and 82385 cache controller
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5125084
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June 23, 1992
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System bus preempt for 80386 when running in an 80386/82385 microcomputer system with arbitration
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5129090
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July 7, 1992
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Microprocessor hold and lock circuitry
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5170481
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December 8, 1992
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Delayed cache write enable circuit for a dual bus microcomputer system with an 80386 and 82385
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5175826
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December 29, 1992
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Data processing apparatus for selectively posting write cycles using the 82385 cache controller
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5327545
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July 5, 1994
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Connecting a short word length non-volatile memory to a long word length address/data multiplexed bus
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5448521
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September 5, 1995
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Microcomputer system employing address offset mechanism to increase the supported cache memory capacity
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5450559
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September 12, 1995
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System and method for prefetching information in a processing system
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5544342
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August 6, 1996
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Non-contiguous mapping of I/O addresses to use page protection of a process
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5548746
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August 20, 1996
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Self-time processor with dynamic clock generator having plurality of tracking elements for outputting sequencing signals to functional units
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5553276
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September 3, 1996
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Method and system for reading from a m-byte memory utilizing a processor having a n-byte data bus
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5603041
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February 11, 1997
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Method and system in a distributed shared-memory data processing system for determining utilization of nodes by each executed thread
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6266745
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July 24, 2001
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Method and system in a distributed shared-memory data processing system for determining utilization of shared-memory included within nodes by a designated application
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6336170
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January 1, 2002
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Data storage device for recording to magnetic thread
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7206163
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April 17, 2007
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Method and apparatus for constructing a neuroscience-inspired artificial neural network with visualization of neural pathways
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9753959
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September 5, 2017
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Method and apparatus for constructing, using and reusing components and structures of an artificial neural network
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10019470
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July 10, 2018
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Method and apparatus for providing random selection and long-term potentiation and depression in an artificial network
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10055434
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August 21, 2018
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Method and apparatus for constructing a dynamic adaptive neural network array (DANNA)
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10095718
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October 9, 2018
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Method and apparatus for providing real-time monitoring of an artificial neural network
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10248675
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April 2, 2019
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References
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"Mark Dean - Biography, Computer Scientist, Engineer"
. biography.com. 13 January 2021.
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McCoy, Frank (1999-12-26).
"He refined the desktop PC"
.
U.S. News & World Report
. Archived from
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. Retrieved
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.
A year later, Dean led a team that built a 1,000-megahertz chip [...]
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Maulsby, Richard (1997-10-15).
"Four American Inventors to Receive Ronald H. Brown American Innovator Awards"
(Press release). United States Patent and Trademark Office
. Retrieved
2013-07-11
.
Dean, just 40, holds more than 25 patents, including three of
IBM
's original nine PC patents.
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"IBM Fellows - United States"
.
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. 2017-04-13
. Retrieved
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"Mark Dean Saw?and Built?the Future ? The Elective"
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. Retrieved
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'The tablet is my device of choice': Why PC creator Mark Dean has largely abandoned his electronic child"
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. Retrieved
2023-03-30
.
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Angel, Jonathan (2011-08-10).
"Thirty years later, the personal computer's obsolete, IBM PC designer says"
. linuxfordevices.com. Archived from
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. Retrieved
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.
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Dean, Mark (2011-08-12).
"IBM Leads the Way in the Post-PC Era"
.
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. Archived from
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I recently traded in my PC for a tablet computer [...]
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. Biography.com
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(illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 177.
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.
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.
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. Archived from
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. Retrieved
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b
"Mark Dean - Computer Scientist of the African Diaspora"
. Department of Mathematics, University of Buffalo
. Retrieved
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.
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b
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. Biography.com. 13 January 2021.
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"Parker Taking New Role at Office of Science and Technology Policy"
. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 2018-08-15
. Retrieved
2018-08-17
.
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"Thank you, Mark Dean"
. July 2019.
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"Knox County Proclaims April 25 'Dr. Mark Dean Day'
"
. University of Tennessee. 26 April 2019
. Retrieved
2019-08-27
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"Mark E. Dean"
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Our Tennessee
. 23 January 2017
. Retrieved
2023-03-30
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Evans, Bob (2011-08-11).
"Personal Computers Becoming Obsolete, Says IBM PC Architect"
.
Forbes
. Retrieved
2011-08-12
.
One of IBM's primary designers for its iconic PC says he's chucked the PC in favor of a tablet [..] Now CTO for IBM Middle East and Africa, Dean [...]
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"Personal Computer Inventor to Join College of Engineering Faculty"
.
Tennessee Today
. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 2013-08-07
. Retrieved
2013-10-12
.
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. Black-inventor.com. Archived from
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. Retrieved
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"Dr. Mark Dean and the Personal Computer - News - SparkFun Electronics"
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. Retrieved
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.
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. Retrieved
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