John L Hennessy

In Leading Matters, current Chairman of Alphabet (Google's parent company), former President of Stanford University, and "Godfather of Silicon Valley," John L. Hennessy shares the core elements of leadership that helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur, esteemed academic, and venerated administrator. Hennessy's approach to leadership is laser-focused on the journey rather than the destination. Each chapter in Leading Matters looks at valuable...

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been considered essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 years. The sixth edition of this classic textbook is fully revised with the latest developments in processor and system architecture. It now features examples from the RISC-V (RISC Five) instruction set architecture, a modern RISC instruction set developed and designed to be a...

This version of 'Computer Organization and Design' features the RISC-V open source instruction set architecture, the first open-source architecture designed to be used in modern computing environments such as cloud computing, mobile devices, and other embedded systems. Improvements to the new second edition, including new sections in each chapter on Domain Specific Architectures (DSA) and updates of all of the real-world examples in the book, keep...