David Patterson

South High School

Class of 1965

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David Patterson - Class of 1965 - South High School

First Name	David
Last Name	Patterson
Graduation Year	Class of 1965
Gender	Male
Current Location	Berkeley, California
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	David Patterson retired after 40 years as an EECS professor at UC Berkeley before joining Google in 2016 as a Distinguished Engineer. He is probably best known for the book "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach," now in its 7th edition, and for the Berkeley RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) and RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks). He received 50 awards, including the 2017 ACM A.M Turing Award (the “Nobel Prize of Computing”) and the 2022 NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering (a “Nobel Prize of Engineering”), both shared with his co-author John Hennessy, past President of Stanford Universi...(read more)