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Yale Nance Patt is an American
professor
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of
electrical and
computer engineering
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at
The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In
1965
Events January–February
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, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex
logic gate
A logic gate is an idealized or physical device implementing a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output. Depending on the context, the term may refer to an ideal logic gate, ...
implemented on a single piece of
silicon
Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. It is a member of group 14 in the periodic tab ...
. He is a fellow of both the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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and 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 ...
, and in 2014 he was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering.
Patt received his
bachelor's degree
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at
Northeastern University
Northeastern University (NU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in ...
and his
master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice. and
doctorate
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at
Stanford University
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, all in electrical engineering. His
doctoral advisor
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was
Richard Mattson
Richard Lewis Mattson (born May 29, 1935) is an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work on using memory trace data to simulate the performance of the memory hierarchy. He developed the stack distance profile, and used it to model ...
.
Patt has spent much of his career pursuing aggressive ILP, out-of-order, and speculative computer architectures, such as HPSm, the High Performance Substrate for Microprocessors.
Patt is also the co-author of the textbook, ''Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond'', currently published in its third edition by
McGraw-Hill
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, which is used as the course textbook for his undergraduate Introduction to Computing class at
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
as well as the introduction Computer Engineering course at
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Introduction to Computer Systems at
University of Pennsylvania
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and Computer Organization and Programming at
Georgia Institute of Technology
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and Introduction to Computer Engineering at
University of Wisconsin Madison
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. It is in this textbook that the
LC-3 Assembly Language
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is introduced.
In 2009, Patt received an honorary doctorate from the
University of Belgrade.
Teaching
*1966–1967 Cornell University
*1969–1976 North Carolina State University, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
*1976–1988 San Francisco State University, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
*1979–1988 University of California-Berkeley, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
*1988–1999
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
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, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
*1999–present University of Texas, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Awards
*1995
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award "for contributions to computer architecture leading to commercially viable high performance microprocessors"
*1996 IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award "for important contributions to instruction level parallelism and superscalar processor design"
*1999
IEEE Wallace W. McDowell Award "for your impact on the high performance microprocessor industry via a combination of important contributions to both engineering and education"
*2005
IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award
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"for fundamental contributions to high performance processor design"
*2014 Elected to the
National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to high-performance microprocessor architecture"
*2016
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science "for his pioneering contributions to the design of modern microprocessors that achieve higher performance by automatically identifying computer instructions that can be performed simultaneously"
References
External links
One Page Autobiographical SketchOfficial UT ECE PageYale Patt's Home Page*
Introduction to Computing: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Northeastern University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Cornell University faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American electrical engineers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
University of Michigan faculty
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