John Patrick Hayes is an Irish-American

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and

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, the Claude E. Shannon Chair of Engineering Science at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

.Faculty profile
, Univ. of Michigan, retrieved 2012-02-20.

Biography

Hayes did his undergraduate studies at the National University of Ireland, Dublin, graduating in 1965. He went on to graduate studies at the

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, earning a master's degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1970. After working in

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for

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for two years, he returned to academia, taking a faculty position at the

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in 1972, and then moving to Michigan in 1982.

Research

Hayes is the author of the books *''Digital System Design and Microprocessors'' (McGraw-Hill, 1984, ) *''Introduction to Digital Logic Design'' (Addison-Wesley, 1993, ) *''Computer Architecture and Organization'' (3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2002, ) *''Quantum Circuit Simulation'' (with George F. Viamontes and Igor L. Markov, Springer, 2009, ) Hayes has written extensively on the use of

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s in

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, He has also written highly cited research papers on

fault-tolerant design Fault tolerance is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of one or more faults within some of its components. If its operating quality decreases at all, the decrease is proportional to the ...

reversible computing Reversible computing is any model of computation where the computational process, to some extent, is time-reversible. In a model of computation that uses deterministic transitions from one state of the abstract machine to another, a necessary c ...

, and

stochastic computing Stochastic computing is a collection of techniques that represent continuous values by streams of random bits. Complex computations can then be computed by simple bit-wise operations on the streams. Stochastic computing is distinct from the study of ...

Awards and honors

Hayes became an

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in 1985 "for contributions to digital testing techniques and to switching theory and logical design", and an

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in 2001 "for outstanding contributions to logic design and testing and to fault-tolerant computer architecture."ACM Fellow award citation
retrieved 2012-02-20. In 2004, the University of Illinois department of electrical and computer engineering gave him their distinguished alumni award.
Univ. of Illinois, retrieved 2012-02-20.

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