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John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist who is chairperson of Alphabet Inc. (Google). Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, and also the tenth President of Stanford University. Hennessy announced that he would step down in the summer of 2016.
Biography. As Stanford University’s 10th president, John L. Hennessy led the university’s extraordinary growth in multidisciplinary research and teaching from 2000 to 2016. Keeping Stanford accessible and affordable to outstanding students was among his priorities, and during his presidency, Stanford’s financial aid program became one of ...
Dec 30, 2023 · John L. Hennessy is Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, the largest fully endowed graduate-level scholarship program in the world. He is Chairman of the Board of Alphabet and serves on the Board of Directors for Cisco Systems and the Board of Trustees for Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
John L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004.
Bio. John L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004.
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, United Kingdom, Elected 2017. Legendary Leader, Churchill Club, Silicon Valley, 2017. Okawa Prize for Information and Telecommunications, 2017. Honorary Doctorate, University of Strathclyde, 2016. James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons Endowed Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, 2016.
John L Hennessy. United States – 2017. CITATION. For pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. Short Annotated. Bibliography. ACM Turing Award. Lecture Video. Research. Subjects.
360. 1991. Two techniques to enhance the performance of memory consistency models. K Gharachorloo, A Gupta, JL Hennessy. Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. , 1991. 353. 1991. Load balancing and data locality in adaptive hierarchical N-body methods: Barnes-Hut, fast multipole, and radiosity.
Apr 2, 2024 · John L. Hennessy was born in 1953 and grew up in Long Island, New York. He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University (1973) and his master's (1975) and PhD (1977) in computer science from SUNY Stony Brook.
Jan 5, 2024 · He is chairman of Alphabet and serves as a trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Formerly the tenth president of Stanford University, he is also a computer scientist who co-founded MIPS Computer Systems and Atheros Communications.
