David Patterson (computer scientist)

David Patterson
David Patterson
Born	David Andrew Patterson; November 16, 1947; Evergreen Park, Illinois
Citizenship	United States
Education	South High School
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles (BA, MS, PhD)
Known for	Reduced instruction set computer; RAID; Network of Workstations
Awards	Charles Stark Draper Prize (2022); Turing Award (2017); Eckert–Mauchly Award (2008); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2006); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; ACM Fellow (1994);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer systems
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Verification of Microprograms (1976)
Doctoral advisor	David F. Martin; Gerald Estrin
Doctoral students	Garth Gibson; Kimberly Keeton; David Ungar; Christos Kozyrakis;
Website	www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/patterson.html

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, becoming a distinguished software engineer at Google. He currently is vice chair of the board of directors of the RISC-V Foundation, and the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at UC Berkeley.

Patterson is noted for his pioneering contributions to reduced instruction set computer (RISC) design, having coined the term RISC, and by leading the Berkeley RISC project. As of 2018, 99% of all new chips use a RISC architecture. He is also noted for leading the research on redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) storage, with Randy Katz.

His books on computer architecture, co-authored with John L. Hennessy, are widely used in computer science education. Hennessy and Patterson won the 2017 Turing Award for their work in developing RISC.

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