Turing Award: John Hennessy

A podcast interview with a very prominent person in computing;
Uplifting view of the future... and AI...
All roads/conversations lead to AI...

 Turing Award Special: A Conversation with John Hennessy - Software Engineering Daily

John Hennessy is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and academic known for his significant contributions to computer architecture. He co-developed the RISC architecture, which revolutionized modern computing by enabling faster and more efficient processors. Hennessy served as the president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016 and later co-founded MIPS Computer Systems and Atheros Communications. Currently, he serves on the board of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and is chair of the board of Alphabet.

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John L. Hennessy - Wikipedia

Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros,
and also the tenth President of Stanford University.

Along with David Patterson, Hennessy was a recipient of the 2017 Turing Award for their work in developing the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, which is now used in 99% of new computer chips.