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John Cocke
KindPerson
Born1925
Died2002
StatusDead
Fieldcomputing
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Invented RISC architecture at IBM (the 801) and much of the optimization theory compilers still use.

Designed the IBM 801 (1980) — the first RISC machine — and invented the 'reduced instruction set' philosophy that ARM and everything else descended from.\n\nTuring Award 1987; 'the RISC idea' is his.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cocke_(computer_scientist)