Biographical sketch of author
Karl M. Marks Xionics Document Technologies, Inc., 70 Blanchard Rd., Burlington, Massachusetts 01803. Mr. Marks studied electrical engineering from 1980 to 1985 at
the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and Purdue University; he
received his Diploma in electrical engineering from the
Ruhr-University in 1985. From 1986 to 1988 he worked as
an assistant at the Institute for Electronic Devices at
the University of Dortmund, Germany. In 1988 he founded
MacroTek, which engaged in the design of support chips for
Motorola's 88110 and IBM's PowerPC 60x family. During 1995
and 1996 he worked for the Heinz-Nixdorf Institute
at the University of Paderborn, Germany, on the XipChip
project with Xionics Document Technologies. In 1996 he
joined Xionics as Senior Director of ASIC technology. He
has received patents for error detection and correction and
L2 cache technology.
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