12, 2015, IEEE installed a plaque at UC Berkeley to commemorate the contribution of RISC-I in Soda Hall at UC Berkeley. The plaque reads: IEEE Milestone in Electrical and Computer Engineering First RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) Microprocessor ''UC Berkeley students designed and built the first VLSI reduced instruction-set computer in 1981. The simplified instructions of RISC-I reduced the hardware for instruction decode and control, which enabled a flat 32-bit address space, a large set of registers, and pipelined execution. A good match to C programs and the Unix operating system, RISC-I influenced instruction sets widely used today, including those for game consoles, smartphones and tablets. On March 21, 2018, he was awarded the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award together with John L. Hennessy for developing RISC. The award attributed them for pioneering "a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry". In 2022 he was awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize by the National Academy of Engineering alongside John L. Hennessy, Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson for contributions to the invention, development, and implementation of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) chips. Charitable work From 2003 to 2012 he rode in the annual Waves to Wine MS charity event as part of Bike MS; a 2-day cycling adventure. He was the top fundraiser in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. References Computer designers American computer scientists 1947 births Living people Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Presidents of the Association for Computing Machinery Scientists from California Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty University of California, Los Angeles alumni People from Evergreen Park, Illinois 20th-century American scientists 21st-century American scientists Computer science educators Turing Award laureates