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Mark Dean Research Paper

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Mark Dean is an African American inventor and electrical engineer. He has helped in many ways to make today's world what it is. Some of these things are helping to develop the ISA bus, leading the design team for making the first one-gigahertz computer processor, and contributed to the creation of IBM’s first personal computer. Today, he still holds three of IBM’s original nine PC patents.
Mark, who is now age 58, was born on march 2nd, 1957 in Jefferson City, Tennessee. When Mark was younger, he was smart and very hardworking in school. He was a straight-A-student, a good athlete, and one of the only African American students in Jefferson City High School. He graduated at the top of his class, then in 1979, went to the University of Tennessee.

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