Have a photo, anecdote or an interesting piece of information from the RISC-I development days to share? Please post them here.

It would also be nice to give a biographical update given that some of us haven't talked in 30 years.

My wife Linda and I celebrated our 47th wedding anniversary last September. Our two sons are married, have children, and homes that are within 10 miles of us. We have two granddaughters, aged 10 and 16, and a 17-year-old grandson. Below is a group photo from our trip to Disneyland for our granddaughter's 10th birthday.

Every year we host a one-week reunion for the extended Patterson family with up to 30 relatives. They are usually held in Santa Cruz, where we have a beach house.

On the education side, John Hennessy and I wrote two architecture textbooks, both of which are now in their 5th editions. My most recent book is (surprisingly) on software engineering http://www.saasbook.info/, which Armando Fox and I co-authored.

On the research front, after RISC, Randy Katz and I led the RAID project and then David Culler I led the Network of Workstations (NOW) Project.

My current research projects are in software for genetics processing as an application of the AMP Labhttps://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/ and two hardware projects in the ASPIRE Labhttps://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/. The first is called Fireboxhttps://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/2014/02/aspire-firebox-project-presented-in-keynote-talk-at-usenix-fast-2014-conference/, which is intended to be a much larger building block for the Warehouse Scale Computer of 2010. The second is called RISC-V http://riscv.org/, whose goal is create a popular open source instruction set. (Its name make sense if you consider the Smalltalk on a RISC (SOAR) project to be RISC-III and Symbolic Processing Using RISCs (SPUR) project to be RISC-IV.)

For fun I play soccer, ride bikes, lift weights, and even enter the occasional short triathlon.