Stanley Mazor is a retired Silicon Valley computer designer and
technology icon. He is one of the co-inventors of the world's
first microprocessor, which is now found in automobiles, medical
devices and, of course, computers. For his work refining the
computer-on-a-chip Intel 4004, he was inducted as a Fellow of
the Computer History Museum and awarded the National Medal of
Technology by President Barack Obama in 2010. Mazor will speak
today, Jan. 30, about how computer chips are designed and made
at a free lecture offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute. Podium is a series spotlighting Ashland teachers.
Send profile ideas He has lived in Ashland on and off since
1996. He is most famous here for designing and building the
16th-century neoclassic, French-inspired chateau on 25 acres,
which is visible from Interstate 5. He wrote a book, "Design an
Expandable House: For Present Needs and Future Dreams," on being
an amateur architect after he designed the three-story chateau
using Styrofoam blocks, solar