The author of this post is Blaise L Mouttet.

The name Ted Hoff is familiar to many electrical and computer engineers for his work in developing the first microprocessor introduced by Intel. A lesser known contribution of Ted Hoff was the suggestion for a new type of circuit element called the memistor, an electrolytic memory element developed in 1960 which formed the basis for a neural circuit architecture called ADALINE (ADAptive LInear NEuron) developed by Stanford University professor Bernard Widrow. Read the rest of this entry »