Rewarded for RISC.

The article presents profiles of Association for Computing Machinery's Turing award recipients John Hennessy and David Patterson. According to the author, the Novel Prize of computing was given for their reduced instruction set computer (RISC) chip design. Some facts of their works are included.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 6; pp. 10 - 13
Main Author:	Savage, Neil
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jun2018
Subjects:	Hennessy, John L., 1952- Patterson, David Reduced instruction set computers Microprogramming Integrated circuits Awards Computer software
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article presents profiles of Association for Computing Machinery's Turing award recipients John Hennessy and David Patterson. According to the author, the Novel Prize of computing was given for their reduced instruction set computer (RISC) chip design. Some facts of their works are included.