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John L. Hennessy

1952 - Today

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John Leroy Hennessy (born 22 September, 1952) is an American computer scientist and chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, serving as 10th president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Marc Andreessen called him "the godfather of Silicon Valley." 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John L. Hennessy is the 148th most popular computer scientist (down from 128th in 2019), the 8,432nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,925th in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, John L. Hennessy ranks 148 out of 245. Before him are Rudolf Bayer, Demis Hassabis, Adam Osborne, Jack Dorsey, Phil Zimmermann, and Robert Tarjan. After him are Michael Stonebraker, Jaron Lanier, Kateryna Yushchenko, Shafi Goldwasser, Raj Reddy, and Bertrand Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, John L. Hennessy ranks 437. Before him are Mokhtar Hasni, Joe Alaskey, Jiichiro Date, Stanislav Seman, Kama Sywor Kamanda, and Dragan Šakota. After him are Vittorio Sgarbi, Rosemarie Trockel, Brigitte Engerer, Didier Raoult, Dave Loebsack, and Valeriy Pidluzhnyy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John L. Hennessy ranks 8,434 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Marcinko (1940), Frank O'Hara (1926), Hector Dyer (1910), Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886), Kay Sage (1898), and William B. Lenoir (1939). After him are Tommy Noonan (1921), Richard S. Ewell (1817), Lana Clarkson (1962), Michael D. Coe (1929), Theda Skocpol (1947), and TobyMac (1964).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, John L. Hennessy ranks 85. Before him are Andy Rubin (1963), Anita Borg (1949), James Rumbaugh (1947), Jack Dorsey (1976), Phil Zimmermann (1954), and Robert Tarjan (1948). After him are Michael Stonebraker (1943), Jaron Lanier (1960), Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Kent Beck (1961), Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931), and Annie Easley (1933).

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