Stan Mazor

Stanley Mazor is an American microelectronics engineer, born October 22, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois, who co-invented the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor, working alongside Ted Hoff, Masatoshi Shima and Federico Faggin, and also contributed to the Intel 8080 processor. He began his career in 1964 at Fairchild Semiconductor as a programmer and computer designer, joined Intel in 1969, and helped define the architecture and instruction set for the 4004 announced in 1971. Mazor later taught at Stanford University and the University of Santa Clara. He received the Kyoto Prize in 1997 and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2009.