Knoxville News Sentinel: John L. Hennessy Named the Recipient of the 2026 Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award
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John L. Hennessy
John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist and chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, serving as 10th president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Marc Andreessen called him "the godfather of Silicon Valley."
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Born 22 September 1952 · Q92854
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2023· 1 entry
Was awarded an honorary doctorate of science by the University of Hong Kong
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2022· 2 entries
Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (2022).
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Was awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize by the National Academy of Engineering alongside Steve Furber, David Patterson and Sophie Wilson for contributions to the invention, development, and implementation of reduce
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2020· 1 entry
Received from the UC Berkeley Academic Senate the Clark Kerr Award for distinguished leadership in higher education
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2018· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award (2017).
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Career landmark: director (2017).
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Okawa Prize (2016).
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Hennessy co-founded the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program; he serves as its inaugural director
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2013· 1 entry
Hennessy became a judge for the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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2012· 1 entry
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
Hennessy was presented a khata by the 14th Dalai Lama before the latter addressed Maples Pavilion
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2008· 1 entry
Hennessy's compensation exceeded $1 million, the 23rd highest among all American university presidents
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Peking University (2004).
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Career landmark: board of directors member (2004).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia (2002).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Eckert–Mauchly Award (2001).
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Awarded Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award (2001).
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2000· 3 entries
Won IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2000).
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Career landmark: president (2000–2016).
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The Stanford Board of Trustees named Hennessy to succeed Casper as president
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1999· 2 entries
Career landmark: provost (1999–2000).
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Stanford President Gerhard Casper appointed Hennessy to succeed Condoleezza Rice as Provost of Stanford University
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (1997).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1994).
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1988· 1 entry
Hennessy and Patterson began a three-year effort to write the first edition Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, which described RISC instruction sets and cost-performance tradeoffs
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1984· 1 entry
Used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc
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1981· 1 entry
Began the MIPS project to investigate RISC processors, following preliminary investigations at Berkeley by David A
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-09-22.
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