Stephen Paul Morse (born May 1940) is the architect of the

Intel 8086 The 8086 (also called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and June 8, 1978, when it was released. The Intel 8088, released July 1, 1979, is a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (allo ...

chip and is the originator of the "One Step" search page tools used by genealogists.

Early life

Morse was born in

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. He has degrees in electrical engineering from the

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, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and

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Career

Intel 8086

Morse worked for

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, IBM's Watson Research Center, Intel, and General Electric Corporate Research and Development. He was a principal architect of Intel 8086 microprocessor chip, designed by Intel between early 1976 and June 8, 1978. He is quoted as saying:

"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."

Genealogy

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 a co-author, with linguist

Alexander Beider Alexander Beider (russian: Александр Борисович Бейдер, ; yi, אלכסנדר ביידער, ) is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish. Biography Alexander Bei ...

, of the Beider–Morse phonetic name matching algorithm.

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