Nationality American Academic advisor Gerald Estrin Role Academic | Name David Patterson Alma mater UCLA | |
Born November 16, 1947 (age 76)
Evergreen Park, Illinois ( 1947-11-16 ) Institutions University of California, Berkeley Thesis Verification of Microprograms (1976) Doctoral advisor David F. Martin
Gerald Estrin Doctoral students Garth A. Gibson
David Ungar Education University of California, Los Angeles Awards Eckert–Mauchly Award, IEEE John von Neumann Medal Known for Reduced instruction set computing, RAID, Computer cluster Books Computer Organization and Desi, Computer Architecture: A Quantit, Arquitectura de Computadores, Computing unbound, Architecture des ordinateurs Similar People John L Hennessy, Gerald Estrin, David Ungar, David Paterson | ||
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. He announced retirement in 2016 after serving nearly forty years.. He currently is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the RISC-V Foundation.
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- Background
- Research
- Past Positions
- Books
- Articles
- Awards
- Charity
- Recent Work
- PhD Students
- References
Patterson is noted for his pioneering contributions to RISC processor design, having coined the term RISC, and by leading the Berkeley RISC project. He is also noted for his research on RAID storage.
His books on computer architecture (co-authored with John L. Hennessy) are widely used in computer science education.
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Background
A native of Evergreen Park, Illinois, David Patterson attended UCLA, receiving his B.A. in 1969, M.S. in 1970 and Ph.D. (advised by David F. Martin and Gerald Estrin) in 1976.
Research
He is an important proponent of the concept of reduced instruction set computing and coined the term "RISC". He led the Berkeley RISC project from 1980 along with Carlo H. Sequin, where the technique of register windows was introduced. He is also one of the innovators of the redundant arrays of independent disks (RAID) (in collaboration with Randy Katz and Garth Gibson), and Network of Workstations (NOW) (in collaboration with Eric Brewer and David Culler).
Past Positions
Past chair of the Computer Science Division at U.C. Berkeley and the Computing Research Association, he served on the Information Technology Advisory Committee for the U.S. President (PITAC) during 2003–05 and was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2004–06.
Books
He co-authored six books, including two with John L. Hennessy on computer architecture: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (5 editions—latest is ISBN 0-12-383872-X) and Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface (5 editions—latest is ISBN 978-0-12-407726-3). They have been widely used as textbooks for graduate and undergraduate courses since 1990. His most recent book is with Armando Fox on software engineering: Engineering Software as a Service: An Agile Approach Using Cloud Computing (1st Edition) (ISBN 0-9848812-4-7).
Articles
Awards
His work has been recognized by about 35 awards for research, teaching, and service, including Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as well as by election to the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. In 2005 he and Hennessy shared Japan's Computer & Communication award and, in 2006, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Computing Research Association. In 2007 he was named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for fundamental contributions to engineering education, advances in computer architecture, and the integration of leading-edge research with education." That same year he was also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2008, won the ACM Distinguished Service Award, the ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award, and was recognized by the School of Engineering at UCLA for Alumni Achievement in Academia. Since then he has won the ACM-SIGARCH Distinguished Service Award, ACM-SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, and the 2012 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing from IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. In 2016 he was given the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science and Diversifying Computing
In 2013 he set the American Powerlifting Record for the state of California for his weight class and age group in bench press, dead lift, squat, and all three combined lifts.
On February 12, 2015, IEEE installed a plaque at UC Berkeley to commemorate the contribution of RISC-I in Soda Hall at UC Berkeley. The plaque reads:
Charity
From 2003 to 2012 he rode in the annual Waves to Wine MS charity event as part of Bike MS; a 2-day cycling adventure. He was the top fundraiser in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. In total, he has raised more than $200,000 for Multiple Sclerosis.
Recent Work
David Patterson's recent projects have been the RAD Lab: Reliable Adaptive Distributed systems, the Par Lab: Parallel Computing Laboratory, the AMP Lab: Algorithms, Machines, and People Laboratory, and the ASPIRE Lab: Algorithms and Specializers for Provably optimal Implementations with Resilience and Efficiency Laboratory.
Ph.D. Students
He has advised a number of notable Ph.D. candidates, including: