John L. Hennessy

1952 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Stony Brook University, Villanova University

occupation: computer scientist, engineer, university teacher, businessperson, academic, entrepreneur

award received: IEEE John von Neumann Medal, IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, Computer History Museum fellow, Eckert–Mauchly Award, Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, Turing Award, honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of the Peking University, Charles Stark Draper Prize

position held: president, provost, chairperson, director

official website: profiles.stanford.edu/john-hennessy

John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist, academician and businessman who serves as Chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. as well as Atheros and served as 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. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)