Yale N. Patt

Yale Nance Patt (born June 29, 1939 in Melford (Massachusetts) ) is an American computer engineer.

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Yale N. Patt graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and Stanford University with a master's degree in 1963 and a PhD in electrical engineering in 1966. He was a post-doctoral student at Cornell University . From 1969 he was Assistant Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University and from 1976 Professor at San Francisco State University . At the same time, he was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1979 and co-director of the Berkeley High Performance Computer Group from 1984 to 1988. In 1988 he became a professor at the University of Michigan and in 1999 at the University of Texas at Austin .

As a student in 1965, Yala Patt developed the WOS Module, one of the first examples of complex logic on a single silicon chip.

He has a reputation for pursuing innovative, state-of-the-art computer architectures. In 1984, together with students, he introduced the HPS micro-architecture (High Performance Substrate) for high-performance computers with parallel processing of instructions. In 1991 he introduced the two-level branch prediction.

In 1996 he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award . In 1999 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award , in 1995 the Piore Medal and in 2005 the Charles Babbage Award from the IEEE. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Belgrade. For 2016 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute .

Fonts

• with Sanjay Patel: Computing Systems: from bits and gates to C and beyond, McGraw Hill, 2001, 2nd edition 2004

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004