John Hennessy and David Patterson Share ACM Turing Award
ACM recently announced that computer scientists John Hennessy and David Patterson have shared the 2017 ACM Turing Award. This blog post (a) gives a story–necessarily oversimplified–for how Hennessy & Patterson’s work fundamentally changed and accelerated computer architecture work and (b) includes Hennessy and Patterson’s Turing Lecture abstract.
