David Patterson (computer scientist)
| David Patterson | |
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| Born |
November 16, 1947 Evergreen Park, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | UCLA |
| Thesis | Verification of Microprograms (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | David F. Martin Gerald Estrin |
| Doctoral students |
Garth A. Gibson David Ungar |
| Known for |
RISC RAID Network of Workstations |
| Notable awards |
Eckert–Mauchly Award (2008) ACM Distinguished Service Award (2007) Computer History Museum Fellow (2007) National Academy of Engineering Member National Academy of Sciences Member AAAS Fellow ACM Fellow (1994) IEEE Fellow Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1991) |
David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976. He announced retirement in 2016 after serving nearly forty years.
Patterson is noted for his pioneering contributions to RISC processor design, having coined the term RISC, and by leading the Berkeley RISC project. He is also noted for his research on RAID storage.
His books on computer architecture (co-authored with John L. Hennessy) are widely used in computer science education.
A native of Evergreen Park, Illinois, David Patterson attended UCLA, receiving his B.A. in 1969, M.S. in 1970 and Ph.D. (advised by David F. Martin and Gerald Estrin) in 1976.
He is an important proponent of the concept of reduced instruction set computing and coined the term "RISC". He led the Berkeley RISC project from 1980 along with Carlo H. Sequin, where the technique of register windows was introduced. He is also one of the innovators of the redundant arrays of independent disks (RAID) (in collaboration with Randy Katz and Garth Gibson), and Network of Workstations (NOW) (in collaboration with Eric Brewer and David Culler).
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