John L. Hennessy

John Hennessy
Hennessy at Stanford, June 2007
10th President of Stanford University
In office
September 1, 2000[1] – August 31, 2016[2]
Preceded byGerhard Casper
Succeeded byMarc Tessier-Lavigne
11th Provost of Stanford University
In office
July 1999 – September 2000
Preceded byCondoleezza Rice
Succeeded byJohn Etchemendy
Personal details
Born
John Leroy Hennessy

(1952-09-22) September 22, 1952 (age 71)
Huntington, New York, U.S.
Alma mater
Known forReduced instruction set computer
MIPS Technologies
Atheros
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer architecture[5]
ThesisA real-time language for small processors: design, definition and implementation (1977)
Doctoral advisorRichard Kieburtz
Doctoral students
Websitehennessy.stanford.edu

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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  2. ^ Lapin, Lisa (June 21, 2016). "Stanford President-elect Marc Tessier-Lavigne is preparing to take office Sept. 1". Stanford News. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
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  4. ^ "John Hennessy". acm.org.
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  7. ^ Paulson, Lawrence Charles (1981). A Compiler Generator for Semantic Grammars (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 757240716. ProQuest 303229537.
  8. ^ Haselton, Todd (2018-02-01). "John Hennessy named as Alphabet's new board chairman". CNBC. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  9. ^ "Stanford University President John L. Hennessy to step down in 2016". Stanford News. 2015-06-11. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference New Yorker: Get Rich U. (2012) was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ "Computer Chip Visionaries Win Turing Award". The New York Times. 2018-03-21.
  12. ^ John L. Hennessy, Stanford Website
  13. ^ The Secret of Silicon Valley, John Hennessy speaks at Stanford
  14. ^ Interview with John Hennessy
  15. ^ Interview with John Hennessy, concerning the video game industry (audio and text) - 2009-06-22
  16. ^ John L. Hennessey Papers
  17. ^ John Hennessy's higher learning, strategy+business interview (2019)

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