ETH Global Lecture: Professor John Hennessy, President Emeritus of Stanford University
Zurich, 22 February 2018 - Professor John Hennessy, President Emeritus of Stanford University and Co-founder of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, will give a keynote lecture "Silicon Valley Innovation".
"Silicon Valley Innovation"
externe Seite Professor John Hennessy
President Emeritus of Stanford University
Co-Founder of Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Free public lecture
Thursday, 22 February 2018
ETH Zurich, Main Building, Semper Aula, HG G 60
17.30 h
Professor Hennessy initiated the MIPS project at Stanford in 1981, MIPS is a high- performance Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), built in VLSI. MIPS was one of the first three experimental RISC architectures. In addition to his role in the basic research, Hennessy played a key role in transferring this technology to industry. During a sabbatical leave from Stanford in 1984-85, he cofounded MIPS Computer Systems (later externe Seite MIPS Technologies Inc. and now part of Imagination Technologies), which specializes in the production of chips based on these concepts. He also led the externe Seite Stanford DASH (Distributed Architecture for Shared Memory) multiprocessor project. DASH was the first scalable shared memory multiprocessor with hardware-supported cache coherence. More recently, he has been involved in externe Seite FLASH(FLexible Architecture for Shared Memory), which is designed to support different communication and coherency approaches in large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors. In the 1990s, he served as the Founding Chairman of the Board of Atheros, an early wireless chipset company, now part of Qualcomm. Hennessy is also the coauthor of two widely used textbooks in computer architecture.
In addition to his work as a Professor at Stanford, he has served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science (1994-96), Dean of the School of Engineering (1996-99), Provost (1999-2000), and externe Seite President (2000-2016). He is currently the Director of the externe Seite Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, which each year will select 100 new graduate scholars from around the world to receive a full scholarship (with stipend) to pursue a wide-ranging graduate education at Stanford, with the goal of developing a new generation of global leaders.