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Name
  
Stephen Morse


Role
  
Electrical engineer

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Education
  
Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Books
  
Windows 3 in business, The 8086/8088 primer

Stephen Paul Morse (born May 1940) is the architect of the Intel 8086 chip and is the originator of the "One Step" search page tools used by genealogists.

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Early life

Morse was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has degrees in electrical engineering from CCNY, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and New York University.

Career

Morse worked for Bell Laboratories, IBM's Watson Research Center, and GE Corporate Research and Development.

Genealogy

In recent years, he has applied his technology expertise to Web-based Genealogy Search Tools. His "One Step" Search Pages are widely used by genealogists all over the world. He is also the co-author with linguist Alexander Beider of the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm.

He is quoted as saying that

"While I'd like to think that the PC wouldn't exist today if I hadn't designed the 8086, the reality is that it would be based on some other processor family. The instruction set would be radically different, but there would still be a PC. I was just fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time."

References

Stephen P. Morse Wikipedia