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Andrew Grove
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Interview
Biography
Andrew S. Grove was born in Budapest, Hungary in1936. He graduated from the City
College of New York in 1960 with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree and received
his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. He joined the Research and
Development Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor and became Assistant Director of
Research and Development in 1967.
In July 1968, Dr. Grove participated in the founding of Intel Corporation and in 1979
he was named its President, and in 1987 Chief Executive Officer.Dr. Grove has written over
40 technical papers and holds several patents on semiconductor devices and technology. He
currently is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching a course
titled "Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry".
Dr. Grove has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of
Engineering. In 1985 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the City
College of New York, and in 1989 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree
from Worester Polytechnic Institute. He is a recipient of many awards, including the 1987
Engineering Leadership Award from the IEEE.
In 1993 he received the AEA Medal of Achievement, and in March of 1994, Dr. Grove was
elected a Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January, 1995 Dr. Grove was
awarded the Heinz Family Foundation Award for Technology and the Economy. |