Norman Paul Jouppi is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist.

Career

Jouppi was one of the computer architects at the MIPS Stanford University Project (under

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), an early

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project. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

in 1980 and was awarded a PhD in 1984 from

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. In 1984 he joined

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's Western Research Laboratory. He worked at

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and at

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in 2002, where he ran the Advanced Architecture Lab at HP Labs in

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from 2006 to 2008 and then the Exascale Computing Lab from 2008 to 2010 and the Intelligent Infrastructure Lab from 2010 to 2011. After that, he became a computer engineer at

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. He pioneered developments in the field of memory hierarchies ( victim buffers, prefetching stream buffers multi-level exclusive caching), heterogeneous architectures (single ISA heterogeneous architectures) and the introduction of the CACTI simulator for memory design (modeling of cache time, area and power). He was the principal architect of four microprocessors and contributed to the development of graphics accelerators. He also deals with

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technology and the application of nanophotonics in the computer field. In 2015, he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions to the design and analysis of high performance processors and computer storage systems. In 2002 he became Hewlett Packard Fellow, in 2003 fellow of the

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and in 2007 fellow of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

. The ACM awarded Jouppi its

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in 2013. In 2014 he received the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award. Also in 2014, he was elected a member of the

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for contributions to the design of computer memory hierarchies. From 2007 to 2011, he headed the ACM's Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) department. From 1984 to 1996, he was also a consulting assistant or associate professor at Stanford University. He holds over 35 US patents. He is a member of the editorial boards of ''Communications of the ACM'' and ''IEEE Computer Architecture Letters''.

References

External links

Jouppi named ACM Fellow, 2007

CV 2011
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