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David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976.
David Patterson is the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, which he joined after graduating from UCLA in 1976.
DAVID A. PATTERSON ( ) has taught computer architecture since joining the faculty in 1977, and is holder of the E.H. and M.E. Pardee Chair of Computer Science. At Berkeley, he led the design and implementation of RISC I, likely the first VLSI Reduced Instruction Set Computer.
Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley - Cited by 129,730 - computer systems
Mar 21, 2018 · David Patterson, pioneer of modern computer architecture, receives Turing Award. Computer science's top honor shared with Stanford's John Hennessy for designing the architecture now part of most computer chips. By Brett Israel.
David Patterson received BA, MS, and PhD degrees from UCLA. He is a UC Berkeley Pardee professor emeritus, a Google distinguished engineer since 2016, the RIOS Laboratory Director, and the RISC-V International Vice-Chair. His most influential Berkeley projects likely were RISC and RAID.
Patterson was a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley from 1976 to 2016, and is now a professor of the graduate school and a distinguished engineer at Google. He coined the term reduced instruction set computer, or RISC, in 1980 to describe an approach that veered from the complex systems that were prevalent at the time.
