Professor
David Andrew Patterson
University of California, Berkeley
Computer scientist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Computer Sciences
Elected
2006
E. H. and M. E. Pardee Professor of Computer Science. President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Coauthor, with John Hennessy, of a book on computer architecture that transformed the field from art to engineering and science. Pioneer of Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) and Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) and also coined those terms. Current work is on fault-tolerant systems.
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