About the Author
Armando Fox is an Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Berkeley and a
co-founder of the Berkeley AMP Lab. During his previous time at
Stanford, he received teaching and mentoring awards from the Associated
Students of Stanford University, the Society of Women Engineers, and Tau
Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. He was named one of the "Scientific
American 50" in 2003 and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and the
Gilbreth Lectureship of the National Academy of Engineering. In
previous lives he helped design the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor and
founded a successful startup to commercialize his UC Berkeley
dissertation research on mobile computing. He received his other degrees
in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and the
University of Illinois and is an ACM Distinguished Member. David
Patterson is the Pardee Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and
is currently Director of the Parallel Computing Lab. In the past, he
served as Chair of Berkeley's CS Division, Chair of the CRA, and
President of the ACM. His best-known research projects are Reduced
Instruction Set Computers (RISC), Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
(RAID), and Network of Workstations (NOW). This research led to many
papers, 5 books, and about 30 of honors, including election to the
National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the
Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, and Fellow of the Computer
History Museum. His teaching awards include the Distinguished Teaching
Award (UC Berkeley), the Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (ACM), the
Mulligan Education Medal (IEEE), and the Undergraduate Teaching Award
(IEEE). He received all his degrees from UCLA.
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