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Prof. David A. Patterson, Computer Science, Unversity of California, Berkeley, has received C&C Award, 2004, together with Prof. John L. Hennesy, Stanford University, for their contribution to advancement of computer architecture.
Especially, after the invention of RISC architecture by Dr. Ｊｏｈｎ Ｃｏｏｋ, they have contributed to its materialization through developing its LSI in coopertaion with the industry. It has resulted in MIPS and SPARC RISC chips for work stations, and further uses for game machines, terminal devices and communication tools as built-in processor. Furthermore, Dr. Patterson has developed RAID system, which has expanded utilization of ha-d-disk memory units.
The ceremony was held at Hotel Ohkura, 3 p.m., Jan. 26, 2005.
Before this ceremony, Prof. Peterson's Luncheon Meeting was held at Tokyo American Club, Jan. 25.　

Notes）ＲＩＳＣ (Reduced Instructuion Set Computer)：　Design specification for micro processor, where each demand is so simplified that plural number of demands are processed in prallel so as to improve efficiency. Many work stations utilize this type of CPU.
　　 ＲＡＩＤ (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) or Disk Array：　Technology where plural number of hard disks are controlled as a single unit of hard disk.. Since data are stored dispersedly, but controlled by a single unit, it improves the speed and safety of data handling..