Michael J. Flynn

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Michael Flynn
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Born (1934-05-20) May 20, 1934 (age 89)
Nationality American
Alma mater Manhattan College
Syracuse University
Purdue University
Known for Flynn's taxonomy
Awards Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award
Scientific career
Institutions Stanford University

Michael J. Flynn (born May 20, 1934) [1] is an American professor emeritus at Stanford University. [2]

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Early life and education

Flynn was born in New York City.

Career

Flynn proposed Flynn's taxonomy, a method of classifying parallel digital computers, in 1966. [3]

In the early 1970s, he was the founding chairman of IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) [4] and Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture, ACM SIGARCH (initially SICARCH). [5] Flynn encouraged, from the beginning, joint cooperation between the two groups [6] which now sponsors many leading joint symposiums and conferences like ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). [7]

In 1995 he received a Harry H. Goode Memorial Award.

In 2009, Flynn received an honorary doctorate from the University of Belgrade.

Flynn co-founded Palyn Associates with Maxwell Paley and in 2014 is Chairman of Maxeler Technologies.

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