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”.

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 ...

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 ...

David Patterson's girlfriend filed a restraining order against Matt Barnes. The person on the receiving end of Barnes' spit was Patterson, who used to be the husband of Barnes' fiancee, Anansa Sims.

Adi Fuchs, a computer scientist at Speedata, an ai-chip company, points out that during the Bitcoin boom, once the underlying algorithm stabilised, the industry exhausted its “bag of tricks ...