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Your students are your legacy

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This Viewpoint boils down into a few magazine pages what I've learned in my 32 years of mentoring Ph.D. students.

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NOW Reunion, July 2008 (nowreuniongroupjul08.jpg)
NOW (Network of Workstations) 10th Reunion, July 2008 Front row (Left-Right): Tom Anderson (Washington), Rich Martin (Rutgers), David Culler (UC Berkeley), Greg Papadapolous (Sun), David Patterson (UC Berkeley); Middle row: Eric Anderson (HP), Mike Dahlin (Texas), Bob Felderman (Google), Armando Fox (UC Berkeley), Drew Roselli (Microsoft), Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau (Wisconsin), Lok Liu, Joe Hsu Back row: Ken Lutz, Matt Welsh (Harvard), Eric Fraser, Chad Yoshikawa, Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley), Jeanna Neefe Matthews (Clarkson), Amin Vahdat (UC San Diego), Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (Wisconsin), Joe Smith, Steve Lumetta (Illinois), Paul Pierce (Intel). Note: Felderman, Papadapolous, and Pierce were NOW Retreat guests. Description of reunion at http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/wiki
Par Lab Retreat, January 2009 (parlabretreatgroupjan09.jpg)
Group photo from Parallel Computing Research (Par Lab) Retreat January 2009
RAD Lab Retreat, January 2009 (radlabretreatgroupjan09.jpg)
Group photo From Reliable Adaptable Distributed systems (RAD Lab) Retreat January 2009
RAID Reunion, January 2002 (raidreuniongroupjan02.jpg)
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) 10th Reunion, January 2002 Front Row (Left-Right): David Patterson (Berkeley), Randy Katz (Berkeley), John Ousterhout (Stanford/Electric Cloud founder). Middle row: Pete Chen (Michigan), Garth Gibson (CMU/Panasas founder), Ann Chervenak (USC ISI), Ed Lee (Data Domain), Mary Baker (HP Labs), Kim Keeton (HP Labs), Ken Shirriff (Sun Labs), Fred Douglis (IBM Research). Last row: Ken Lutz (Berkeley), Martin Schulze, Rob Pfile, Ethan Miller (UC Santa Cruz), Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford/VMware founder), John Hartman (Arizona), Steve Strange (NetApp).
SPUR Reunion, February 2009 (spurreuniongroupfeb09.jpg)
SPUR (Symbolic Processing Using RISCs) 20th Reunion, February 2009 Front row (Left-Right): Kinson Ho, David Patterson (Berkeley), Garth Gibson (CMU/Panasas founder), Richard Fateman (Berkeley), Joanne Kong, Shing Kong (Pathscale), Brent Welch (Panasas), DK Jeong. Middle Row: John Ousterhout (Stanford/Electric Cloud founder), Mark Hill (Wisconsin), Deirdre McAuliffe-Bauer (BWRC), Paul Hansen, Theresa Lessard-Smith (LBL), Mike Nelson (VMware), Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford/VMware founder), Ben Zorn (Microsoft). Last Row: John Hartman (Arizona), David Wood (Wisconsin), James Larus (Microsoft), Luigi Semenzato, Randy Katz (Berkeley), George Taylor, Corinna Lee(AMD/ATI), Ken Lutz (Berkeley), David Lee (Silicon Magic founder), Joanne Lee, David Hodges (Berkeley) Description of reunion at http://spur.cs.berkeley.edu/
SPUR Reunion Group, January 1999 (spurreuniongroupjan99.jpg)
SPUR (Symbolic Processing Using RISCs) 10th Reunion, January 1999 Left-right, front row: David Patterson (Berkeley), Garth Gibson (CMU/ Panasas founder), Richard Fateman (Berkeley), Shing Kong (Pathscale), Brent Welch (Panasas). Middle row: John Ousterhout (Stanford), Mark Hill (Wisconsin), Susan Eggers (Washington), Paul Hansen, B. K. Bose, Mike Nelson (VMware), Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford/VMware founder), Ben Zorn (Microsoft). Last row: David Wood (Wisconsin), Jim Larus (Microsoft), Luigi Semanzato, Randy Katz (Berkeley), Scott Ritchie, George Taylor, Andrew Cherenson, Corinna Lee (AMD/ATI), Ken Lutz (Berkeley), David Lee (Silicon Magic Founder), David Hodges (Berkeley). Description of reunion at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/SpurReunion/

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 3
Being Human in the Digital Age
March 2009
138 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1467247
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