Stephen P. Morse

Who is Stephen P. Morse?

Stephen Paul Morse is the architect of the Intel 8086 chip.

He has degrees in Electrical Engineering from CCNY, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and New York University. He has worked for Bell Laboratories, IBM's Watson Research Center and GE Corporate Research and Development.

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."

In opening remarks Steve Morse delivered at Techniche 2011 to students of the Indian Institute of Technology at Guwahati, India, IIT Guwahati August 31, 2011, he said,

"When I obtained my engineering degree 50 years ago: Computers were the size of a room.