Wayne Pickette

January 21, 2023 · 1 min · 52 words · Clifford Priddy

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Name: Wayne D. Pickette

Born: April 21, 1950

Often called the African American father of the microprocessor.
Created the design for putting a computer on a chip (1968).
Worked on the development of the first microcomputer.
One of the initial workers to use switches as a backbone to servers (1994).