John Harrison Wharton (21 September 1954 – 14 November 2018) was an American engineer specializing in microprocessors and their applications. Wharton designed the Intel MCS-51, one of the most implemented instruction set architectures of all time. John Wharton graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1976 and a Master's degree in computer science in 1977, having earlier attended Yale University for two years before transferring to Northwestern. He was hired by Intel at the instigation of Tom Rolander, working there for 5 years before leaving to start his consulting company, Applications Research. He was a founding member of the editorial board of Microprocessor Report. He first spoke at the Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop in 1980, along with Carver Mead, Jim Clark, Dave Patterson and Gary Kildall. He first chaired a session in 1983, and became Chair of the workshop in 1985, a position he continued to hold through 1997. He was Program Chair from 1999 through 2017. From 1989 to 2004, with Dennis Allison, he coordinated Stanford University's EE380 course. More information...
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