William D. Strecker
William Daniel Strecker (* 1944 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American computer engineer. He is the principal architect of Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX .
Strecker studied at Carnegie Mellon University ( bachelor's degree in 1966), where he received his doctorate in 1970 under Gordon Bell ( An analysis of the instruction execution rate in certain computer structure ). He was the main architect of the VAX minicomputer series, which was delivered from 1978 (VAX 11/780) as a 32-bit successor to the PDP-11. VAX stood for Virtual Address eXtension , indicating the implementation of virtual memory . He was also involved in the development of cache memories in the PDP-11/70.
Strecker was with DEC for 28 years, most recently (from 1989) as Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Technology and (from 1985) CTO . He then held the same position at Compaq . In 2000 he became a partner at the venture capital firm Flagship Ventures . There he was chairman .
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery . In 1985 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award .
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- with Bell Computer structures: what have we learned from the PDP-11? , Proc. 3rd Int. Symp. Computer Architecture 1976, pp. 1-14
- with Bell Retrospective: What have we learned from the PDP-11, what we have learned from the VAX and ALPHA , 25 years of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (Selected Papers), 1998, pp. 6-10
- Article on VAX in Bell, Siewiorek, Newell (Eds.) Computer Structures , McGraw Hill 1982
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| SURNAME | Strecker, William D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strecker, William Daniel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |