Yale Patt

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Yale N. Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery.

Patt received his bachelor's degree at Northeastern University and his master's degree and doctorate at Stanford University, all in electrical engineering.

He is currently teaching EE360N for undergraduate engineering students.

Patt has spent much of his career pursuing aggressive ILP, out-of-order, and speculative computer architectures. E.g. HPSm, the High Performance Substrate for Microprocessors.

[edit] Teaching

1966–1967 Cornell University
1969–1976 North Carolina State University, Professor of Electrical Engineering
1976–1988 San Francisco State University, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
1979–1988 University of California-Berkeley, Professor of Computer Science
1988–1999 University of Michigan, Professor of Computer Engineering
1999–present University of Texas, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering

[edit] Awards

1995 IEEE Emannuel R. Piore Medal "for contributions to computer architecture leading to commercially viable high performance microprocessors"
1996 IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award "for important contributions to instruction level parallelism and superscalar processor design"
1999 IEEE Wallace W. McDowell Award "for your impact on the high performance microprocessor industry via a combination of important contributions to both engineering and education"
2005 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award "for fundamental contributions to high performance processor design"