However, during the 2017 ACM Turing Award acceptance speech, John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson described the present as the “golden age of computer architecture”.

John Hennessy and David Patterson are legends in Silicon Valley, fathers of the modern-day computer processor. Earlier this week they won the prestigious Turing Award for their decades of work on ...

David Patterson, left, and John Hennessy won the 2017 ACM Turing Award for inventing RISC processors. They're now pushing special-purpose chips such as Google's Tensor Processing Unit, center, for ...

The inner workings of a computer, David Patterson says, should be kept simple, stupid. We’re sitting in an engineering lab at UC Berkeley, and Patterson—77 years old, partial to no-frills ...

REQUIRED TEXTS: D. Patterson and J. Hennessey, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface , Morgan Kaufmann, 3rd edition (2004) REFERENCE TEXTS: J. Hennessey and D. Patterson, ...