COMPUTER SCIENTIST

David Patterson

1947 - Today

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David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976. He announced retirement in 2016 after serving nearly forty years, becoming a distinguished software engineer at Google. He currently is vice chair of the board of directors of the RISC-V Foundation, and the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at UC Berkeley.Patterson is noted for his pioneering contributions to reduced instruction set computer (RISC) design, having coined the term RISC, and by leading the Berkeley RISC project. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Patterson has received more than 25,196 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). David Patterson is the 142nd most popular computer scientist (down from 137th in 2019), the 8,615th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,137th in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 25k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of David Pattersons by language

Over the past year David Patterson has had the most page views in the with 4,721 views, followed by Japanese (2,639), and Russian (2,382). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (141.92%), Esperanto (117.16%), and Simple English (67.77%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, David Patterson ranks 142 out of 245. Before him are Robert Tarjan, Jaron Lanier, Silvio Micali, Subhash Kak, Robert Tappan Morris, and Thomas E. Kurtz. After him are Christos Papadimitriou, Leslie Valiant, Richard Garriott, Kent Beck, Paul Graham, and Rudolf Bayer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, David Patterson ranks 631. Before him are Maurice Martens, Guo Jinlong, Laura Nyro, Patrick Chesnais, Ilona Gusenbauer, and Richard Lewis. After him are Bernie Leadon, Volodymyr Troshkin, Mike Chapman, Liz Torres, Siegmar Wätzlich, and Chris Thomas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Patterson ranks 8,615 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard LeParmentier (1946), Jamie Farr (1934), Karen Pence (1957), Margaret E. Knight (1838), Michael Shermer (1954), and Richard Lewis (1947). After him are Adrian Pasdar (1965), Dack Rambo (1941), Matt Czuchry (1977), Jack Shea (1910), ZaSu Pitts (1894), and Bernie Leadon (1947).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, David Patterson ranks 85. Before him are Annie Easley (1933), Michael Stonebraker (1943), Robert Tarjan (1948), Jaron Lanier (1960), Robert Tappan Morris (1965), and Thomas E. Kurtz (1928). After him are Kent Beck (1961), E. Allen Emerson (1954), Randy Pausch (1960), James H. Clark (1944), Steve Russell (1937), and Andy Hertzfeld (1953).

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