Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface

John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist and Academic. He is the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. and is the 10th President of Stanford University.

David Andrew Patterson is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977. 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 disks. His book on computer architecture is widely used in computer science education. Patterson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A native of Evergreen Park, Illinois, David Patterson attended UCLA, receiving his B.A. in 1969, M.S. in 1970 and Ph.D. in 1976. He is an important proponent of the concept of Reduced Instruction Set Computer and coined the term "RISC". He led the Berkeley RISC project from 1980 and onwards along with Carlo H. Sequin, where the technique of register windows was introduced.
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