The 1997 Kyoto Prize Workshops

The Birth of Microprocessor and Future Possibility

Federico Faggin

/　　Semiconductor Engineer and Entrepreneur

Advanced Technology

Electronics

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1997

11 /12 Wed

10:00 - 17:30

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

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

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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)