Michael J. Flynn (born May 20, 1934) is an American

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Early life and education

Flynn was born in

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Career

Flynn proposed

Flynn's taxonomy Flynn's taxonomy is a classification of computer architectures, proposed by Michael J. Flynn in 1966 and extended in 1972. The classification system has stuck, and it has been used as a tool in design of modern processors and their functionalities ...

, a method of classifying parallel digital computers, in 1966. In the early 1970s, he was the founding chairman of

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's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) and

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's Special Interest Group on

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(initially SICARCH). Flynn encouraged from the beginning, joint cooperation between the two groups which now sponsors many leading joint symposiums and conferences like ACM/IEEE

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(ISCA). In 1995 he received a

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. In 2009, Flynn received an honorary doctorate from the

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

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References

External links

Stanford page

Curriculum Vitae

Flynn, Mike (Michael J.) oral history , Computer History Museum
Living people 1934 births Place of birth missing (living people) Manhattan College alumni Flynn's taxonomy American computer scientists Stanford University faculty {{compu-scientist-stub