A History of Silicon Valley
This biography is an appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley"
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(Copyright © 2009 Piero Scaruffi)
John Hennessy
John Hennessy (New York, 1952)
studied electrical engineering at Villanova University in Philadelphia until
1973, and graduated in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1977.
He immediately joined Stanford where he became a pioneer of
RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), starting his own RISC project
in 1981. Three years later
Hennessy founded MIPS that
in 1985 released the first major RISC processor, the R2000.
He went on to become provost and then president of Stanford University.
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