Mark E. Dean is Professor Emeritus and former Interim Dean of the Tickle College of Engineering and John Fisher Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee. Former Chief Technology Officer of the Middle East and Africa for IBM, IBM Fellow and a graduate of Florida Atlantic University, Dean’s research focuses on advanced computer architecture, data centric computing and computational sciences. [Information Technology; computer engineer; Industry Standard Architecture bus; ISA bus; peripheral plug-in devices; National Inventors Hall of Fame; one-Gigahertz processor chip; CMOS microprocessor; Blue Gene supercomputer; IBM PC; Color Graphics Adapter; IBM; Florida Atlantic University; FAU]