Mark Dean

Absolutely.

And I think it's very important as we close here and invite you guys to ask questions and prepare your questions that we remember the great Mark Dean when he said, we need to make sure the future is built by all of us.

It's very important that as you sit in this room and you focus, go back into school or go back into your industries to focus on your majors or your day-to-day jobs that you're thinking about this next state.

You're thinking about this next state.

Absolutely.

And I think it's very important as we close here and invite you guys to ask questions and prepare your questions that we remember the great Mark Dean when he said, we need to make sure the future is built by all of us.

It's very important that as you sit in this room and you focus, go back into school or go back into your industries to focus on your majors or your day-to-day jobs that you're thinking about this next state.

You're thinking about this next state.

And he, this was an affirmative action thing.

In developing his program, he brought in a young man from Morristown named Mark Dean.

Mark started studying electrical engineering, and during the summers he worked as an intern for IBM.

When he graduated from UT with his degree in electrical engineering, he went to work for IBM, and he was a product of this affirmative action effort that the university was engaging in.

On the personal computers, there were nine original patents.

Two of those are Mark Dean's patents.

Mark went on to get his master's degree in electrical engineering, and then he received his doctorate from Stanford University in electrical engineering and became the vice president for research and development for that corporation.

He worked on the team that came up with whatever you would call it that allows your computer to talk to your printer.

Now, there is a, uh, I think, a marker on the Riverwalk, Riverwalk dedicated to him, and I've had the opportunity to meet him a few times because the History Center gives out an award in his honor on an annual basis.

But I encourage you to look up these folks- Please ... like Reverend Bernard Lafayette Jr.- Mm-hmm ... like Mark Dean- Mm-hmm ... who I got to meet and interview this week at the Hillsborough College BBCB Conference.

Mark Dean is an amazing man.

He was a IBM, uh, fellow, the first Black IBM fellow- Mm ... back in the late '70s, early '80s.

He invented the personal computer, co-invented it, invented the gigahertz chip that's in everybody's smartphones.

one representing Dr. Martin Luther King and the Freedom Riders before later becoming the first black woman federal judge.

And last but not least, a brother by the name of Mark Dean, born in 1957, and he's still alive.

Who was he? Who is he, I should say, because he's still here, a computer scientist and engineer who helped build the modern digital age.

this up family this this is how you can tell if through through through wisdom wisdom borns culture you can tell if the culture has the uh wisdom in it right because the legacy of continuum stands through the annals of time These great inventors and stuff that I mention every week, you don't hear about them.