13th Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to John Hennessy and David Patterson, Feb. 10, 2021

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to John Hennessy and David Patterson for turning computer architecture into a science and designing the processors that power today’s devices

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies has gone in this thirteenth edition to John Hennessy (Stanford University) and David Patterson (University of California, Berkeley) for taking computer architecture, the discipline behind the central processor or “brain” of every computer system, and launching it as a new scientific area. In the video which can be seen by clicking Play on the image at the top of this page, the president of the jury, Professor Joos Vandewalle, Honorary President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, reads the citation of the award.