David Patterson (computer scientist)

David Patterson
Born
David Andrew Patterson

(1947-11-16) November 16, 1947 (age 76)
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA, MS, PhD)
Known forReduced instruction set computer
RAID
Network of Workstations
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer systems[4]
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisVerification of Microprograms (1976)
Doctoral advisorDavid F. Martin
Gerald Estrin
Doctoral students
Websitewww2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/patterson.html Edit this at Wikidata

David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) is an American computer scientist and academic who has held the position of professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976. He is a computer pioneer. He announced retirement in 2016 after serving nearly forty years, becoming a distinguished software engineer at Google.[5][6] He currently is vice chair of the board of directors of the RISC-V Foundation,[7] and the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at UC Berkeley.[8]

Patterson is noted for his pioneering contributions to reduced instruction set computer (RISC) design, having coined the term RISC, and by leading the Berkeley RISC project.[9] As of 2018, 99% of all new chips use a RISC architecture.[10][11] He is also noted for leading the research on redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) storage, with Randy Katz.[12]

His books on computer architecture, co-authored with John L. Hennessy, are widely used in computer science education. Hennessy and Patterson won the 2017 Turing Award for their work in developing RISC.

  1. ^ "Charles P. "Chuck" Thacker is the recipient of the 2017 Eckert-Mauchly Award". awards.acm.org.
  2. ^ "David A. Patterson, Google, Inc". nasonline.org.
  3. ^ Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1991)
  4. ^ David Patterson publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ "People of ACM - David Patterson". acm.org.
  6. ^ "Dave Patterson – Google Research".
  7. ^ "Board of Directors". riscv.org. RISC-V Foundation. Archived from the original on 2017-08-03. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  8. ^ Who's Who in America 2008. Marquis Who's Who. New Providence, New Jersey. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8379-7010-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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  10. ^ "Computer Chip Visionaries Win Turing Award". The New York Times. 2018-03-21.
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  12. ^ "David Patterson: Biography". Computer History Museum. 2007.