Personal Computer Inventor to Join University of Tennessee College of Engineering Faculty
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 13:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Dean, a 1979 engineering alumnus, is responsible for developing technology that allows us to plug anything into computers--keyboards, mice, monitors, modems, printers, speakers, scanners--and have the devices and PCs communicate seamlessly. He holds three of the nine original patents on the computer that all PCs are based upon, and more than 40 patents overall.