Recode Decode: John Hennessy and Dave Patterson, winners, 2017 Turing Award

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Alphabet chairman John Hennessy and Google distinguished engineer Dave Patterson talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about winning the 2017 Turing Award, a prestigious achievement in computer science. In the 1980s, Hennessy and Patterson developed a revolutionary new type of computer processor called RISC, which allowed computers to run faster and more efficiently — a breakthrough that became especially important in the era of mobile devices and the internet of things. They talk about the intense pushback they received from the computing industry at the time and why we're now in a "new golden age of computer architecture," filled with difficult problems that businesses have thus far been unable to crack. The upshot: Another RISC-like revolution needs to happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.0	Today in the red chair, we've got some very big brains.
1:01.4	I'm a little bit nervous.
1:02.4	A John Hennessy and Dave Patterson, the winners of the 2017 Turing Award,
1:07.1	which is essentially the Nobel Prize for computer science.
1:10.0	They can tell me if that's different.
1:11.4	They won the award for the developing risk, a technology that revolutionized computer processing.
1:17.1	John is also the former president of Stanford University.
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