Muhammad Ali Mazidi

Muhammad Ali Mazidi (May 10, 1954 – August 30, 2022) 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, as well as the widely cited author of several editions of ''The 8051'' ''Microcontroller and Embedded'' ''Systems''.

Mazidi went to Tabriz University and held master's degrees from both Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas. He founded MicroDigitalEd and taught microprocessor-based system design. He was also a scholar of and occasional lecturer on the Baháʼí Faith. Provided by Wikipedia