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David Patterson

Also Known As David Andrew Patterson
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David Andrew Patterson is an American computer scientist who was a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley from 1976 until his 2016 retirement, after which he became a distinguished software engineer at Google. He is noted for pioneering contributions to reduced instruction set computer (RISC) design, coining the term RISC and leading the Berkeley RISC project, and for leading research on redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) storage with Randy Katz. He and John L. Hennessy won the 2017 Turing Award for their work developing RISC, and their co-authored textbooks on computer architecture are widely used in computer science education. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1947 1
Birth Date
1947-11-16 2
Award
Charles Stark Draper Prize 1
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IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal 1
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Turing Award 1
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ACM Fellow 1
Award
Eckert–Mauchly Award 1
Award
Computer History Museum Fellow 1
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Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award 1
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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1
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ACM Distinguished Service Award 1
Award
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award 1
Award
honorary doctor of the Tsinghua University 1
Award
IEEE John von Neumann Medal 1
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1. Wikidata: David A. Patterson
  • Wikidata Q92851, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)
  • Wikidata Q92851 P569 (date of birth)
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2. Wikipedia: David Patterson
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  • Lead section
    David Andrew Patterson is an American computer scientist who was a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley from 1976 until his 2016 retirement, after which he became a distinguished software engineer at Google. He is noted for pioneering contributions to reduced instruction set computer (RISC) design, coining the term RISC and leading the Berkeley RISC project, and for leading research on redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) storage with Randy Katz. He and John L. Hennessy won the 2017 Turing Award for their work developing RISC, and their co-authored textbooks on computer architecture are widely used in computer science education.
  • Infobox, Born
    November 16, 1947
  • In Field: Computer Architecture, Infobox field and known_for, lead paragraph
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