About the Authors
Armando Fox is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and the
Faculty Advisor to the UC Berkeley MOOCLab. During his previous time at
Stanford, he received teaching and mentoring awards from the Associated
Students of Stanford University, the Society of Women Engineers, and Tau
Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. He was named one of the “Scientific
American 50” in 2003 and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and the
Gilbreth Lectureship of the National Academy of Engineering. In previous
lives he helped design the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor and founded a
successful startup to commercialize his UC Berkeley dissertation research on
mobile computing, which included the world’s first graphical web browser
running on a mobile device (Top Gun Wingman on the Palm Pilot). He
received his other degrees in electrical engineering and computer science
from MIT and the University of Illinois and is an ACM Distinguished
Scientist. He is also a classically-trained musician and freelance Music
Director, and a bilingual/bicultural (Cuban-American) New Yorker
transplanted to San Francisco.
David Patterson is the Pardee Professor of Computer Science at
UC Berkeley and is currently Director of the Parallel Computing Lab. In the
past, he served as Chair of Berkeley’s CS Division, Chair of the CRA, and
President of the ACM. His best-known research projects are Reduced
Instruction Set Computers (RISC), Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
(RAID), and Networks of Workstations (NOW). This research led to many
papers, 6 books, and more than 35 honors, including election to the National
Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon
Valley Engineering Hall of Fame as well as being named a Fellow of the
Computer History Museum, ACM, IEEE, and both AAAS organizations. His
teaching awards include the Distinguished Teaching Award (UC Berkeley),
the Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (ACM), the Mulligan Education
Medal (IEEE), and the Undergraduate Teaching Award (IEEE). He received
all his degrees from UCLA, which gave him an Outstanding Engineering
Academic Alumni Award. He grew up in California, and for fun he enters
sporting events with his two adult sons, including weekly soccer games,
annual charity bike rides and sprint triathlons, and the occasional weight-
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