Mark E Dean is an American inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA industry standard architecture) bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip. He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981.
1957
Tenessee, USA
African American
First 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
2001 – He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
As of 26 April 2019, April 25 is now officially Mark Dean Day in Knox County, Tennessee
Dean displayed an affinity for technology and invention at a young age, constructing a tractor from scratch together with his father. Dean attended Jefferson City High School in Tennessee, where he excelled in both academics and athletics.
Dean was the interim dean of the UT’s Tickle College of Engineering from August 2018 to July 2019 and is the John Fisher Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. He was previously CTO for IBM Middle East and Africa and prior to that was an IBM Vice President overseeing the company’s Almaden Research Centre in San Jose, California. Dean now holds more than 20 patents. He was part of the team that developed the industry standard architecture (ISA) systems bus that enables multiple devices, such as modems and printers, to be connected to personal computers.
Not long after leaving college, Dean landed a job as an engineer at IBM, a company he would become associated with for the duration of his career. Dean proved to be a rising star at the company. Working closely with a colleague, Dennis Moeller, Dean developed the new Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) systems bus, a new system that allowed peripheral devices like disk drives, printers and monitors to be plugged directly into computers. The end result was more efficiency and better integration.
Souse – Denise Dean
Son – Mark Dean II
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