David Patterson's BIOGRAPHY
David Patterson was the first in his family to graduate from college and
he enjoyed it so much that he didn't stop until he received a Ph.D.
(UCLA '76). He then joined UC Berkeley, where he and his colleagues
developed Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC), Redundant Array of
Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and Network of Workstations (NOW). He was
elected Chair of the Computer Research Association and President of the
Association for Computing Machinery and served as Chair of Berkeley's
Computer Science Division. He is currently Director of both the Reliable
Adaptive Distributed systems All this led to about 200 papers, 5 books,
and about 30 of honors for research, teaching, and service, including
election to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of
Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame and being
named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum, ACM, IEEE, and both AAAS
organizations.
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