He is also the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. He continues to thrive on regular classroom teaching, supervising the research of six PhD students, and consulting on microarchitecture problems in industry. He earned appropriate degrees from reputable universities and has received more than his share of awards for his research and teaching. Details can be found on his home page: www.ece.utexas.edu/~patt. He is the co-author with his former PhD student Professor Sanjay Jeram Patel of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign of "Introduction to Computing: from bits and gates to C and beyond," which reflects his motivated bottom-up approach to learning, the correct way to introduce students to computing. Dates & Deadlines Conference Registration