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posted by martyb on Friday March 23 2018, @06:16PM   Printer-friendly
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ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named John L. Hennessy, former President of Stanford University, and David A. Patterson, retired Professor of the University of California, Berkeley, recipients of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. Hennessy and Patterson created a systematic and quantitative approach to designing faster, lower power, and reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessors. Their approach led to lasting and repeatable principles that generations of architects have used for many projects in academia and industry. Today, 99% of the more than 16 billion microprocessors produced annually are RISC processors, and are found in nearly all smartphones, tablets, and the billions of embedded devices that comprise the Internet of Things (IoT).

Hennessy and Patterson codified their insights in a very influential book, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, now in its sixth edition, reaching generations of engineers and scientists who have adopted and further developed their ideas. Their work underpins our ability to model and analyze the architectures of new processors, greatly accelerating advances in microprocessor design.

Source: HPCWire


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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday March 23 2018, @11:41PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Friday March 23 2018, @11:41PM (#657309)

    That's 79/80, not 70/80. I turned 21 at that job, worked night shift. When I turned 21 a couple co-workers and I went to the Bacchanal in Kearny Mesa and shut the place down . I went there on my own the next night, got 2-3 free drinks. Ordered another and waitress came back saying the bartender wanted to talk to me. He said if I tried to get another free drink he would not only kick me out, but would blacklist me from the bar.

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