The 1997 Kyoto Prize Workshops

The Birth of Microprocessor and Future Possibility

Federico Faggin

/  Semiconductor Engineer and Entrepreneur

Advanced Technology

Electronics

1997

11 /12 Wed

10:00 - 17:30

Place: Kyoto International Conference Center

Address:Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

Finished

Program

10:00
Moderator Hiroyuki Sakaki
Opening Hiroyuki Sakaki
10:05
Greetings Toyomi Inamori
Managing Director, the Inamori Foundation
10:10
Greetings Yasuharu Suematsu
President, Kochi University of Technology (Chairman of the Kyoto Prize Committee)
10:15
Commemorative Lecture I Marcian Edward Hoff, Jr., Laureate
“Conception of Microprocessor Architecture”
10:45
Commemorative Lecture II Federico Faggin, Laureate
“Birth of Microprocessor”
11:15
Commemorative Lecture III Masatoshi Shima, Laureate
“The Future of Microprocessor”
11:45
Commemorative Lecture IV Stanley Mazor, Laureate
“Improvements in IC’s and Design Tools”
12:15
Luncheon
13:15
Moderator Tadahiro Ohmi
Lecture Takao Nishitani
Deputy General Manager, Silicon Systems Labs., NEC Corporation
“Programmable Processors in Multi-Media Era”
14:00
Lecture Takashi Nanya
Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo
“Developing Asynchronous Microprocessors
14:45
Intermission
15:00
Lecture Yukihiro Nakamura
Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
“High-Level Synthesis Design for VLSI Processors”
15:45
Lecture Kunihiro Asada
Professor, VLSI design and Education Center, the University of Tokyo
“Education of VLSI Design in Japanese Universities”
16:30
Lecture Michitaka Kameyama
Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
“Toward New Paradigms for Intelligent Integrated Systems”
17:15
Discussion
17:30
Closing Tadahiro Ohmi

Laureates

Federico Faggin

Semiconductor Engineer and Entrepreneur

Together, four engineers (Dr. Faggin, Dr. Hoff, Mr. Mazor and Dr. Shima) developed the world’s first microprocessor, the 4004. The four pioneers demonstrated that by integrating a few semiconductor chips, a microcomputer could be created which could perform a wide variety of functions. This paved the way for the development of all microprocessor-controlled industrial equipment and consumer electronics, contributing immeasurably to the creation of new industries, and to the progress of modern society.

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date
Wednesday, November 12, 1997
place
Kyoto International Conference Center
Coordinators
Tadahiro Ohmi, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University (Member of the Prize Screening Committee) Hiroyuki Sakaki, Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo (Chairman of the Prize Screening Committee)