John Cocke (May 30, 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist at IBM and recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."
9-624: John Cocke may refer to: John Cocke (computer scientist) (1925–2002), American computer scientist John Alexander Cocke (1772–1854), American politician and Tennessee state militia officer during the Creek War John Cocke (colonel) , American officer in the Tennessee militia at the Battle of New Orleans John Hartwell Cocke (1780–1866), American planter and brigadier general in
18-1037: Is an American science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute , a science museum in Philadelphia . The Franklin Institute awards comprises the Benjamin Franklin Medals in seven areas of science and engineering, the Bower Awards and Prize for Achievement in Science, and the Bower Award for Business Leadership. Since 1824, the institute has recognized "world-changing scientists, engineers, inventors, and industrialists—all of whom reflect Benjamin Franklin's spirit of curiosity, ingenuity, and innovation". Some of
27-1192: The Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award in 1999, and The Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2000. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society , and the National Academy of Sciences . In 2002, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his development and implementation of reduced instruction set computer architecture and program optimization technology." He died in Valhalla , New York , US. Franklin Institute Awards The Franklin Institute Awards (or Benjamin Franklin Medal )
36-584: The 1970s and 1980s, and is credited by Frederick Jelinek with originating the idea of using a trigram language model for speech recognition. Cocke was appointed IBM Fellow in 1972. He won the Eckert-Mauchly Award in 1985, ACM Turing Award in 1987, the National Medal of Technology in 1991 and the National Medal of Science in 1994, IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 1984, The Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit in 1996,
45-467: The War of 1812 John Cocke (Mississippi) , state legislator during Reconstruction See also [ edit ] Cocke John Cox (disambiguation) John Cock (disambiguation) John Cooke (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
54-578: The endowed medals presented by The Franklin Institute at that time into a group of medals recognizing seven areas of study: Chemistry, Computer and Cognitive Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Electrical Engineering, Life Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Physics. The first Benjamin Franklin Medals were presented in 1998. Medalists are selected by a Committee on Science and the Arts (CS&A), composed of local academics and professionals from
63-748: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Cocke&oldid=1229589241 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John Cocke (computer scientist) He was born in Charlotte , North Carolina , US. He attended Duke University , where he received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1946 and his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1956. Cocke spent his entire career as an industrial researcher for IBM , from 1956 to 1992. Perhaps
72-420: The noted past laureates include Nikola Tesla , Thomas Edison , Marie Curie , Max Planck , Albert Einstein , Stephen Hawking . Some of the 21st century laureates of the institute awards are Bill Gates , James P. Allison , Indra Nooyi , Jane Goodall , Elizabeth Blackburn , George Church , Robert S. Langer , and Alex Gorsky . In 1998, the Benjamin Franklin Medals were created by reorganizing all of
81-552: The project where his innovations were most noted was in the IBM 801 minicomputer , where his realization that matching the design of the architecture's instruction set to the relatively simple instructions actually emitted by compilers could allow high performance at a low cost. He is one of the inventors of the CYK algorithm (C for Cocke). He was also involved in the pioneering speech recognition and machine translation work at IBM in
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