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November 20, 1997 - IBM Research today announced Dr. Mark E. Dean has been named Director of its Austin Research Laboratory. In his new post, Dean leads the Austin Research team as it focuses on high-performance microprocessor design.
Dean is an IBM Fellow (IBM's highest technical honor) and holds more than 20 patents. An 18-year IBM veteran, Dean was most recently director of systems structure and performance for the IBM RS/6000 Division.
"Mark's technical expertise will greatly impact the world-class microprocessor research conducted in Austin and throughout IBM Research worldwide," said Randall Isaac, vice president, systems, technology, and science, IBM Research.
Prior to his position with the RS/600 Division, he was vice president of system platform in IBM’s Network Application Services Division, Interactive Broadband Services group, where he was responsible for IBM’s video server offerings. Earlier, as director of architecture for the Power Personal System Division, Dean was responsible for creating the PowerPC Reference Platform specification.
In 1997, Dean received the Black Engineer of the Year President’s Award; the Ronald H. Brown American Innovators Award; and was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio, along with two other IBM colleagues (Robert H. Dennard and Dennis L. Moeller). Dean and Moeller developed improvements in computer architecture that allow IBM and IBM-compatible PCs to run high-performance software and work in tandem with peripheral devices. This technology was first integrated in IBM PCs in 1984, and is now a key component for more than 40 million personal computers produced each year. To date, only 137 men and women are honored in the National Inventor's Hall of Fame.
Dean was named IBM Fellow in 1995. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Dean has also received several other academic and IBM awards, including eight Invention Achievement Awards and six Corporate Awards.
The Austin lab was established in July 1996, and focuses its research activities on high performance microprocessors and the circuits, tools and micro-architectures to support high frequency designs. There are fifteen projects in progress at the lab in three general areas: microprocessor design, systems and software, and memory systems. These projects include manufacturability, technology assessment, low-temperature CMOS, hardware performance analysis, non-uniform memory architectures and JAVA acceleration issues.
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