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Michael Flynn received
his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1961. He joined IBM in 1955 and
for ten years worked in the areas of computer organization and design.
He was design manager of prototype versions of the IBM 7090 and 7094/II,
and later for the System 360 Model 91 Central Processing Unit. Between
1966 and 1974 Prof. Flynn was a faculty member of Northwestern U niversity
and the Johns Hopkins University. In 1975 he became Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Stanford University, and was Director of the Computer
Systems Laboratory from 1977 to 1983. He was founding chairman of both
the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture and the IEEE
Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture. Prof.
Flynn was the 1992 recipient of the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchley Award for
his technical contributions to computer and digital systems architecture.
He was the 1995 recipient of the IEEE-CS Harry Goode Memorial Award
in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the design and classification
of computer architecture. In 1998 he received the Tesla Medal from the
International Tesla Society (Belgrade), and an honorary Doctor of Science
from Trinity College (University of Dublin), Ireland. He is the author
of three books and over 250 technical papers.
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Prof.
Michael Flynn / Stanford University
