Prix Turing 2017, Turing Award 2017

https://www.acm.org/media-center/2018/march/turing-award-2017

Il est décerné à Hennessy et Patterson, les grands promoteurs des architectures RISC et les auteurs de "la bible" des architectes (le Hennessy-Patterson) : 

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Sixth-Quantitative-Approach/dp/0128119055 qu'il ne faut pas confondre avec le Patterson-Hennessy : 

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-MIPS-Fifth/dp/0124077269/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)

https://www.cnet.com/news/risc-chip-inventors-hennessy-patterson-win-computing-turing-prize/

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Dave Patterson and John Hennessy, two San Francisco Bay Area professors now associated with Google, have won the computing industry's top prize for revolutionizing processors with a technology called RISC.

The pair won the 2017 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, a $1 million prize named after Alan Turing, the British researcher who famously helped crack German Enigma codes in World War II and lay the foundations of computer science. The high-prestige award is considered the Nobel Prize for computer science.

RISC, short for reduced instruction set computing, gave processors a major performance boost, fueled the growth of upstarts such as Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems, and paved the way for today's smartphone industry. It's been a remarkable success over the last three decades, and one emblematic of the Silicon Valley ethos of throwing out the old way of doing things."