Michael J. Flynn (born May 20, 1934) is an American
professor
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emeritus
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at
Stanford University
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.
Early life and education
Flynn was born in
New York City
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.
Career
Flynn proposed
Flynn's taxonomy
Flynn's taxonomy is a classification of computer architectures, proposed by Michael J. Flynn in 1966 and extended in 1972. The classification system has stuck, and it has been used as a tool in design of modern processors and their functionalities. ...
, a method of classifying parallel digital computers, in 1966.
In the early 1970s, he was the founding chairman of
IEEE Computer Society
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's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) and
Association for Computing Machinery
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's
Special Interest Group on
Computer Architecture
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,
ACM SIGARCH
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(initially SICARCH). Flynn encouraged from the beginning, joint cooperation between the two groups which now sponsors many leading joint symposiums and conferences like ACM/IEEE
International Symposium on Computer Architecture
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(ISCA).
In 1995 he received a
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
The Harry H. Goode Memorial Award is an IEEE Computer Society
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.
In 2009, Flynn received an honorary doctorate from the
University of Belgrade
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Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...
.
Flynn co-founded
Palyn Associates with Maxwell Paley and in 2014 is Chairman of Maxeler Technologies.
Bibliography
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References
External links
Stanford pageCurriculum VitaeFlynn, Mike (Michael J.) oral history , Computer History Museum
Living people
1934 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Manhattan College alumni
Flynn's taxonomy
American computer scientists
Stanford University faculty
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