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John L. Hennessy

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American computer scientist (born 1952)

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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.

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Awards 14

2022Charles Stark Draper Prize
2017Turing Award
2016Okawa Prize
2012IEEE Medal of Honor
2004honorary doctor of the Peking University
2002honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia
2001Eckert-Mauchly Award
2001Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
2000IEEE John von Neumann Medal
1997ACM Fellow
1994IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
Computer History Museum Fellow
IEEE Fellow
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Kip S. ThorneAlso won honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of CataloniaAdi ShamirAlso won Okawa PrizeMartin CooperAlso won Charles Stark Draper PrizeGene AmdahlAlso won Eckert-Mauchly AwardYasushi InoueAlso won honorary doctor of the Peking UniversityIvan SutherlandAlso won IEEE John von Neumann Medal

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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 1952 · age 74
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