biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1925–2002)
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| biography:
| Electrical engineer, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Working at International Business Machines' Thomas J Watson Research Center (1956), he invented RISC, the Reduced Instruction-Set Computer (1974–5). RISC technology enabled telephone-switching networks to handle 12 million instructions per second. His major research contributions were in systems architecture, hardware design, and program optimization. |
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