SPRING 2005
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David Patterson
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Patterson named to Silicon Valley Hall of Fame
CS professor David Patterson, the Pardee Chair of Computer Science, was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in February in recognition of his professional achievements and contributions to the community.
Patterson led the design and implementation of RISC I, likely the first VLSI Reduced Instruction Set Computer, research that became the foundation of the SPARC architecture used by Sun Microsystems and others.
Patterson, who joined the faculty in 1977, is only the second Berkeley faculty member to be named to the Hall of Fame, following Chang-Lin Tien's selection posthumously last year. Sponsored by the Silicon Valley Engineering Council, the Hall of Fame was established in 1990 to recognize local engineers.
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