David Patterson

David Patterson is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been a central figure in the computer architecture group. He is best known for co-developing the Reduced Instruction Set Computing paradigm and for co-authoring seminal work on RAID storage architectures. He received the ACM A.M. Turing Award jointly with John Hennessy for contributions that transformed microprocessor design. He has argued that the end of Moore's Law has ushered in a golden age for computer architecture, requiring domain-specific hardware approaches.