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Title    Pioneers of Modern Computer Architecture Receive ACM A.M. Turing Award
Date    Friday March 23 2018, @06:16PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the RISCy-business dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/03/23/0128225

Fnord666 writes:

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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  1. "Fnord666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Fnord666/
  2. "John L. Hennessy" - https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/hennessy_1426931
  3. "David A. Patterson" - https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/patterson_2316693
  4. "HPCWire" - https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/pioneers-of-modern-computer-architecture-receive-acm-a-m-turing-award/
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=25510

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