Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
by jeffbee on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:20PM
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For reference this is the title held by David Patterson, giant of the industry and Turing Award winner.
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Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
by danuker on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:23PM
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Wow, the guy has a Wikipedia article in 19 languages.
Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
by andsoitis on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:56PM
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He is also 75 years old.
Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
by xapata on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:53PM
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https://research.google/people/105290/
Still on the website.
Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
by joshuamorton on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:00PM
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To clarify, since people seem to think so, he wasn't the particular person fired, just an example. Another example is Rob Pike, who was L9 when he retired in 2021.
Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
by jeffbee on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:01PM
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Yeah I was just trying to give an example of the kinds of things you have to do to get the title. Things like "invent the computer".
Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
by smugma on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:08PM
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Patterson was very well liked when I was at Berkeley. Maybe a little eccentric but not in a bad way. He famously would buy his students pizza at the end of the semester, saying he used royalties from the textbook that he wrote and taught from (Hennessy* and Patterson).
* Hennessy is chairman of Alphabet
Re:Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records
by pyuser583 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:31PM
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Google still brags about him being a “Google distinguished engineer.” https://research.google/people/105290/