John L. Hennessy
is the president of Stanford University, where he has been a member of the
faculty since 1977 in the departments of electrical engineering and computer science. Hen-
nessy is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and
the National Academy of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Among his many awards are the 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award for his contributions to RISC tech-
nology, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and the 2000 John von Neu-
mann Award, which he shared with David Patterson. He has also received seven honorary
doctorates.
In 1981, he started the MIPS project at Stanford with a handful of graduate students. After com-
pleting the project in 1984, he took a one-year leave from the university to cofound MIPS Com-
puter Systems, which developed one of the first commercial RISC microprocessors. After being
acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1991, MIPS Technologies became an independent company in
1998, focusing on microprocessors for the embedded marketplace. As of 2006, over 500 million
MIPS microprocessors have been shipped in devices ranging from video games and palmtop
computers to laser printers and network switches.
David A. Patterson
has been teaching computer architecture at the University of California,
Berkeley, since joining the faculty in 1977, where he holds the Pardee Chair of Computer Sci-
ence. His teaching has been honored by the Abacus Award from Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the Distin-
guished Teaching Award from the University of California, the Karlstrom Award from ACM, and
the Mulligan Education Medal and Undergraduate Teaching Award from IEEE. Patterson re-
ceived the IEEE Technical Achievement Award for contributions to RISC and shared the IEEE
Johnson Information Storage Award for contributions to RAID. He then shared the IEEE John
von Neumann Medal and the C & C Prize with John Hennessy. Like his co-author, Patterson is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, ACM, and IEEE, and he was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley En-
gineering Hall of Fame. He served on the Information Technology Advisory Committee to the
U.S. President, as chair of the CS division in the Berkeley EECS department, as chair of the Com-
puting Research Association, and as President of ACM. This record led to a Distinguished Service
Award from CRA.
At Berkeley, Patterson led the design and implementation of RISC I, likely the first VLSI reduced
instruction set computer. This research became the foundation of the SPARC architecture, cur-
rently used by Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, and others. He was a leader of the Redundant Arrays
of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) project, which led to dependable storage systems from many com-
panies. He was also involved in the Network of Workstations (NOW) project, which led to cluster
technology used by Internet companies. These projects earned three dissertation awards from
the ACM. His current research projects are the RAD Lab, which is inventing technology for reli-
able, adaptive, distributed Internet services, and the Research Accelerator for Multiple Proces-
sors (RAMP) project, which is developing and distributing low-cost, highly scalable, parallel
computers based on FPGAs and open-source hardware and software.
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