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John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist who is chairperson of Alphabet Inc. (Google). 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.
As Stanford University’s 10th president, John L. Hennessy led the university’s extraordinary growth in multidisciplinary research and teaching from 2000 to 2016.
Professional Experience. Academic, Technical, and Leadership Awards and Honors. Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering (co-winner), 2022. BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies (jointly with D. Patterson), 2021. ACM A.M. Turing Award (jointly with D. Patterson), 2017.
John L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004.
John L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004.
Dec 30, 2023 · John L. Hennessy is Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, the largest fully endowed graduate-level scholarship program in the world. He is Chairman of the Board of Alphabet and serves on the Board of Directors for Cisco Systems and the Board of Trustees for Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
362. 1984. Two techniques to enhance the performance of memory consistency models. K Gharachorloo, A Gupta, JL Hennessy. Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. , 1991. 353. 1991. Load balancing and data locality in adaptive hierarchical N-body methods: Barnes-Hut, fast multipole, and radiosity.
