2018 Black History Month

Dr. Mark E. Dean (born 1957).

Thanks to Dr. Mark E. Dean we are able to log in to FB etc.  

Dr. Dean. designed the ISA bus. This hardware interface allowed multiple devices like printers, modems, and keyboards to be plugged into a computer.

The IBM personal computer and the first color computer monitor is credit to Dr. Mark E. Dean.

In 1999 he led the team of programmers that created the world's first gigahertz chip.

Today, Dr. Mark E. Dean holds three of the company's original nine patents, and more than 20 overall. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1997. He is now a computer science professor at the University of Tennessee.

PS. The IBM Computer is the first computer I used at work.