American computer scientist
John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist who is chairperson of Alphabet Inc. (Google).[8] Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, and also the tenth President of Stanford University. Hennessy announced that he would step down in the summer of 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne.[9] Marc Andreessen called him "the godfather of Silicon Valley."[10]
Along with David Patterson, Hennessy was a recipient of the 2017 Turing Award for their work in developing the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, which is now used in 99% of new computer chips.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
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- ^ "Computer Chip Visionaries Win Turing Award". The New York Times. 2018-03-21.
- ^ John L. Hennessy, Stanford Website
- ^ The Secret of Silicon Valley, John Hennessy speaks at Stanford
- ^ Interview with John Hennessy
- ^ Interview with John Hennessy, concerning the video game industry (audio and text) - 2009-06-22
- ^ John L. Hennessey Papers
- ^ John Hennessy's higher learning, strategy+business interview (2019)