David Patterson (computer scientist)

David Andrew Patterson ( born November 16, 1947 in Evergreen Park, Illinois) is an American computer scientist.

Patterson studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1977 he is a professor of computer science (Computer Architecture) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Patterson studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, at the 1969 he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1970 his master's degree in computer science and where it was in 1976 received his doctorate in computer science. He then taught at Berkeley. In his teachings, he emphasizes close ties with industry and commercial implementation of its research. His textbook on computer architecture was very influential and is a standard work.

1982/83 he led together with Carlo H. Sequin ( in collaboration with the VLSI program ARPA ), the Berkeley RISC project which led to RISC I, the first VLSI Reduced Instruction Set Computer. On this basis, Sun Microsystems later developed the SPARC processor.

1989-1993 developed Patterson, along with Randy Katz, the RAID concept (redundant array of independent disks, German: Redundant array of independent disks).

In 1994 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ) and was its president from 2004 to 2006. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Computer History Museum. In 2008 he received the Eckert - Mauchly Award.

Works

• John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson; with Contributions by Andrea C. Arpaci - Dusseau. . . [ et al. ]: Computer architecture: a quantitative approach. Morgan Kaufmann, Amsterdam, 2007., ISBN 0-12-370490-1
• David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy: Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition, Fourth Edition: The Hardware / Software Interface ( The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design). Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 0-12374-493-8