David Patterson

David Patterson is Vice Chair of the RISC-V Foundation, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and winner of the Turing Award 2017 – generally recognized as the “Nobel Prize of computing”. David served as UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Division chair, the Computing Research Association chair, president of the Association for Computing Machinery, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.

David received the Berkeley Citation in 2016, which is given to distinguished individuals who go beyond the call of duty and whose achievements exceed the standards of excellence in their fields.