# John Hennessy (@john-hennessy)

John Hennessy is a computer architect, Stanford professor, and former Stanford president whose work helped establish reduced instruction set computing.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from John Hennessy's public record._

## Topics

- [Recognition](/@john-hennessy/recognition.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [RISC and MIPS](/@john-hennessy/risc-and-mips.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Stanford leadership](/@john-hennessy/stanford-leadership.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://hennessy.stanford.edu/biography/expanded-biography
- blog: https://hennessy.stanford.edu/stanford-presidency/timeline
- blog: https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/hennessy_1426931

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "john-hennessy", "question": "…"}`.