Muhammad Ali Mazidi
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Muhammad Ali Mazidi (May 10, 1954 – August 30, 2022)[1] was an Iranian-born electrical engineer, author, and lecturer based in Texas. He was the co-author of The 80x86 IBM PC and Compatible Computers, a widely used textbook published by Prentice Hall,[2] as well as the widely cited author of several editions of The 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems.[3][4]
Mazidi went to Tabriz University and held master's degrees from both Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas.[2] He founded MicroDigitalEd and taught microprocessor-based system design. He was also a scholar of and occasional lecturer on the Baháʼí Faith.[citation needed]