David Patterson

David Patterson is likely best-known for the book Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, written with John Hennessy and for the UC Berkeley research projects Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC), Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and Network of Workstations (NOW). He also served as UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Division chair, the Computing Research Association chair, and president of the Association for Computing Machinery. Additionally, David was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and shared the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Hennessy.