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]
Mark Dean | |
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| Born | March 2, 1957[1] Jefferson City, Tennessee, United States |
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| Occupation | Computer engineer |
| Organization | IBM |
| Spouse | Denise Dean |
| Parent(s) | James Dean, Barbara Dean |
Dean was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 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
editDean 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
editDean 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
editMark 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 | Patent Number | Date of Patent |
|---|---|---|
| Color video display system having programmable border color | 4437092 | March 13, 1984 |
| Composite video color signal generation from digital color signals | 4442428 | April 10, 1984 |
| Microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices | 4528626 | July 9, 1985 |
| Refresh generator system for a dynamic memory | 4575826 | March 11, 1986 |
| Data processing system including a main processor and a co-processor and co-processor error handling logic | 4598356 | July 1, 1986 |
| Computer system including a page mode memory with decreased access time and method of operation thereof | 5034917 | July 23, 1991 |
| Method and apparatus for selectively posting write cycles using the 82385 cache controller | 5045998 | September 3, 1991 |
| Bidirectional buffer with latch and parity capability | 5107507 | April 21, 1992 |
| Control of pipelined operation in a microcomputer system employing dynamic bus sizing with 80386 processor and 82385 cache controller | 5125084 | June 23, 1992 |
| System bus preempt for 80386 when running in an 80386/82385 microcomputer system with arbitration | 5129090 | July 7, 1992 |
| Microprocessor hold and lock circuitry | 5170481 | December 8, 1992 |
| Delayed cache write enable circuit for a dual bus microcomputer system with an 80386 and 82385 | 5175826 | December 29, 1992 |
| Data processing apparatus for selectively posting write cycles using the 82385 cache controller | 5327545 | July 5, 1994 |
| Connecting a short word length non-volatile memory to a long word length address/data multiplexed bus | 5448521 | September 5, 1995 |
| Microcomputer system employing address offset mechanism to increase the supported cache memory capacity | 5450559 | September 12, 1995 |
| System and method for prefetching information in a processing system | 5544342 | August 6, 1996 |
| Non-contiguous mapping of I/O addresses to use page protection of a process | 5548746 | August 20, 1996 |
| Self-time processor with dynamic clock generator having plurality of tracking elements for outputting sequencing signals to functional units | 5553276 | September 3, 1996 |
| Method and system for reading from a m-byte memory utilizing a processor having a n-byte data bus | 5603041 | February 11, 1997 |
| Method and system in a distributed shared-memory data processing system for determining utilization of nodes by each executed thread | 6266745 | July 24, 2001 |
| Method and system in a distributed shared-memory data processing system for determining utilization of shared-memory included within nodes by a designated application | 6336170 | January 1, 2002 |
| Data storage device for recording to magnetic thread | 7206163 | April 17, 2007 |
| Method and apparatus for constructing a neuroscience-inspired artificial neural network with visualization of neural pathways | 9753959 | September 5, 2017 |
| Method and apparatus for constructing, using and reusing components and structures of an artificial neural network | 10019470 | July 10, 2018 |
| Method and apparatus for providing random selection and long-term potentiation and depression in an artificial network | 10055434 | August 21, 2018 |
| Method and apparatus for constructing a dynamic adaptive neural network array (DANNA) | 10095718 | October 9, 2018 |
| Method and apparatus for providing real-time monitoring of an artificial neural network | 10248675 | April 2, 2019 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Mark Dean - Biography, Computer Scientist, Engineer". biography.com. 13 January 2021.
- ^ McCoy, Frank (1999-12-26). "He refined the desktop PC". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
A year later, Dean led a team that built a 1,000-megahertz chip [...]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "IBM Fellows - United States". www.ibm.com. 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ^ a b c d e "Mark Dean Saw—and Built—the Future – The Elective". elective.collegeboard.org. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ "'The tablet is my device of choice': Why PC creator Mark Dean has largely abandoned his electronic child". PCWorld. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ Angel, Jonathan (2011-08-10). "Thirty years later, the personal computer's obsolete, IBM PC designer says". linuxfordevices.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- ^ Dean, Mark (2011-08-12). "IBM Leads the Way in the Post-PC Era". Smarter Planet. Archived from the original on 2011-08-13.
I recently traded in my PC for a tablet computer [...]
- ^ a b "Mark Dean: Early Life and Education". Biography.com. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
- ^ a b "Mark Dean: The Groundbreaking Inventor and Computer Engineer". Unique Coloring. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ "Mark Dean". 13 January 2021.
- ^ a b "High-tech's Invisible Man'". US Black Engineer & IT. 25 (5). Career Communications Group: 14. February 2002. ISSN 1088-3444.
- ^ Carter Sluby, Patricia (2009). The inventive spirit of African Americans: patented ingenuity (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-275-96674-4.
- ^ "Mark Dean". National Inventors Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ a b "Mark Dean - Computer Scientist of the African Diaspora". Department of Mathematics, University of Buffalo. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ a b "Mark Dean: Innovation with IBM". Biography.com. 13 January 2021.
- ^ "Parker Taking New Role at Office of Science and Technology Policy". The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
- ^ "Thank you, Mark Dean". July 2019.
- ^ "Knox County Proclaims April 25 'Dr. Mark Dean Day'". University of Tennessee. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^ a b c d e "Mark E. Dean". Our Tennessee. 23 January 2017. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ 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 [...]
- ^ "Personal Computer Inventor to Join College of Engineering Faculty". Tennessee Today. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2013-10-12.
- ^ "Dr. Mark Dean: Computer Inventions". Black-inventor.com. Archived from the original on 2010-07-29. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ "Dr. Mark Dean and the Personal Computer - News - SparkFun Electronics". Sparkfun. 2023-02-21. Archived from the original on 2023-02-21. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "Mark E. Dean Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
External links
edit- Brown, Alan S. (Spring 2015). "Mark E. Dean: From PCs to Gigahertz Chips" (PDF). The Best of Tau Beta Pi. Tau Beta Pi.