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David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976.
David Patterson is the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, which he joined after graduating from UCLA in 1976.
Mar 21, 2018 · David Patterson, pioneer of modern computer architecture, receives Turing Award. Computer science's top honor shared with Stanford's John Hennessy for designing the architecture now part of most computer chips. By Brett Israel.
Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley - Cited by 129,817 - computer systems
DAVID A. PATTERSON ( ) has taught computer architecture since joining the faculty in 1977, and is holder of the E.H. and M.E. Pardee Chair of Computer Science. At Berkeley, he led the design and implementation of RISC I, likely the first VLSI Reduced Instruction Set Computer.
David Patterson received BA, MS, and PhD degrees from UCLA. He is a UC Berkeley Pardee professor emeritus, a Google distinguished engineer since 2016, the RIOS Laboratory Director, and the RISC-V International Vice-Chair.
At a time when fellow computer scientists believed that semiconductor technology demanded increasingly complex architecture, David Patterson took the opposite approach. Simplification won out, and today, 99 percent of all microprocessors produced annually are based on the RISC technology he pioneered.
