Stanford president john hennessey biography
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Stanford president john hennessey biography
John L. Hennessy
American computer scientist
John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist who is chairman of Alphabet Inc. (Google).[8] Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, and also the tenth President of Stanford University.
Hennessy announced that he would step down in the summer of 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne.[9]Marc Andreessen called him "the godfather of Silicon Valley."[10]
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.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Early life and education
Hennessy was raised in Huntington, New York, as one of six children.[10] His father was an aerospace engineer, and his mother was a