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John L. Hennessy

Also Known As John LeRoy Hennessy · John Hennessy
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John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist and chairman of Alphabet Inc. He is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, and served as the tenth president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016. Along with David Patterson, Hennessy received the 2017 Turing Award for developing the reduced instruction set computer, or RISC, architecture, which is now used in the great majority of new computer chips.

Facts
Birth Year
1952 1
Birth Date
1952-09-22 2
Award
Charles Stark Draper Prize 1
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IEEE Fellow 1
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Okawa Prize 1
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Turing Award 1
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ACM Fellow 1
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Eckert–Mauchly Award 1
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Computer History Museum Fellow 1
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honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia 1
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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1
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IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award 1
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honorary doctor of the Peking University 1
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IEEE Medal of Honor 1
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IEEE John von Neumann Medal 1
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Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award 1
Contribution Kind
Hardware 2
Highest Honour
Turing Award 2
Connections

In Field

Computer Architecture, Fields
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From the MIPS project to the textbook: how Hennessy carried RISC out of the lab, Articles
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John L. Hennessy

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IEEE Medal of Honor

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Turing Award

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Member Of

Stanford University

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Nationality

United States

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1. Wikidata: John L. Hennessy
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2. Wikipedia: John L. Hennessy
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  • Lead section
    born September 22, 1952
  • Infobox: awards
    Charles Stark Draper Prize (2022) Turing Award (2017) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2020) Clark Kerr Award (2020) IEEE Medal of Honor (2012) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002) Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ACM Fellow (1997) Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2017)
  • Infobox: known_for
    Reduced instruction set computer MIPS Technologies Atheros
  • In Field: Computer Architecture, Infobox field and known_for, lead paragraph
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