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Richard Sites

1972 HERTZ FELLOW

MAKING HISTORY

Richard Sites is a Semi-Retired Book Author working independently following a distinguished career in computer architecture. Sites earned his undergraduate degree before completing his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, where his fellowship began in 1972. He is best known as the principal architect of the DEC Alpha microprocessor, one of the first 64-bit RISC processors, which set records for performance when it was introduced in 1992. He subsequently led microprocessor architecture work at Google, where he contributed to the design of the data center processors. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies
Stanford University
Computer Science

Graduate Thesis
Proving That Computer Programs Terminate Cleanly

SELECTED AWARDS

2008, Member, National Academy of Engineering

 

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