John Hennessy and David Patterson Deliver Turing Lecture at ISCA 2018

2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients John Hennessy and David Patterson delivered the Turing Lecture on June 4 at ISCA 2018 in Los Angeles. The lecture took place from 5 to 6 p.m. PDT and was open to the public. A video of the lecture can be viewed below.

Titled “A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: Domain-Specific Hardware/Software Co-Design, Enhanced Security, Open Instruction Sets, and Agile Chip Development,” the talk covers recent developments and future directions in computer architecture.

Hennessy and Patterson were recognized with the Turing Award for “pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.”

John Hennessy and David Patterson Receive 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award

ACM has named John L. Hennessy, former President of Stanford University, and David A. Patterson, retired Professor of the University of California, Berkeley, recipients of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.

They delivered the Turing Lecture at the ISCA conference on June 4. View a video of the Lecture.

2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson