// PERSON
John Hennessy
ROLE FORMER PRESIDENT, STANFORD UNIVERSITYAT STANFORD UNIVERSITYMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JUNE 9, 2026
// BIO
Stanford computer scientist, former Stanford president, Turing Award winner, and co-inventor of RISC architecture.
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mention·The AI Corner·JUNE 9, 2026
“John Hennessy at Stanford proved that a simpler instruction set co-designed with a compiler beats two separately optimized systems every time, because the whole outperforms the sum of the parts.”
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