Computing Pioneer Teaches Students to Seize Opportunity
Mark Dean spent over three decades at IBM, where he helped shape the future of computing, developing the company’s original PC and its color monitor, the Industry Standard Architecture bus (which allowed other devices to plug into IBM PCs), and other major innovations. Now the John Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UT, Dean says, “I’m fortunate to be here in academia where I’m expected to explore new space, new things, be innovative.”