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In the News (Fri 11 Dec 09)

  
  John Cocke
Cocke once recalled that when he was given his first bicycle at the age of 6, he dismantled it within a few hours, much to the chagrin of his mother, Mary.
Cocke (rhymes with "sock") was the principal designer of the type of microprocessor that serves as the engine of most of today's large, powerful computers and the Apple Macintosh personal computers.
John Cocke, a leading computer scientist whose inventions spanned an uncommon range of computing technology from software to microprocessors, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. He was 77.
www.thocp.net /biographies/cocke_john.htm   (1508 words)

  
 John Cocke Summary
Cocke's lack of enthusiasm and curiosity, however, was confined to the classroom, and he tinkered with mechanical solutions to problems.
John Cocke (May 30 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognised for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design.
Cocke won the ACM Turing Award in 1987, the National Medal of Technology in 1991 and the National Medal of Science in 1994.
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  IBM Research | Press Resources | John Cocke   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cocke's concept of the RISC resulted from his detailed study of the trade-offs between high performance machine organization and compiler optimization technology.
Cocke contributed many detailed innovations in the 801 processor and associated optimizing PL.8 compiler, which was a redesign of the PL/1 compiler.
Among his many achievements, Cocke was named an IBM Fellow in 1972; he won the Turing award in 1987; the National Medal of Technology in 1991; and the National Medal of Science in 1994.
domino.watson.ibm.com /comm/pr.nsf/pages/bio.cocke.html   (551 words)

  
 Learn more about John Cocke in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Cocke (died July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognised for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design.
Cocke spent his entire career as an industrial researcher for IBM, from 1956 to 1992.
Perhaps the project where his innovations were most noted was in the IBM 801 minicomputer, where his realization that matching the design of the architecture's instruction set to the relatively simple instructions actually emitted by compilers could allow high performance at a low cost.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /j/jo/john_cocke.html   (239 words)

  
 News Releases, Feature Stories and Profiles about Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering
Cocke is well known for his contributions to the field of optimizing compilers, which convert commands from languages such as Pascal or C into the binary code of machine language that the computer understands.
Cocke received the award based on his contributions in three areas of computer science: the development of RISC computers, the design and theory of compilers, and the architecture of large systems.
Cocke is the first engineering graduate to receive an honorary degree from Duke, and it is entirely appropriate that this honor go to such a deserving recipient with an extraordinary record of accomplishments.
www.pratt.duke.edu /alumni/profiles_cocke.php   (766 words)

  
 Grizzard: Construction of UVA: 1996: A Young Scholar's Glimpses of the Charlottesville Academy and the University   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John was hindered from moving fully into the role anticipated for him because he was severely afflicted by epilepsy, a condition which grew worse with each passing year and dominated the last two decades of his life until he died at the age of 42.
John was easily and often embarrassed, and his frequent epileptic seizures led to his being shunned by outsiders; indeed, although he was one of the most eligible young bachelors in Virginia, he never married.
Although John was fond of his stepmother, Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, whom his father married in 1821, she called his seizures "spells of derangement" and claimed that he was "exceedingly profane" and given to "violent wrath," "blood-boiling" anger.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /jefferson/grizzard/jcockejr.html   (1132 words)

  
 Inventor of the Week: Archive
Cocke was born in 1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Cocke decided to dismantle the more complicated instructions into simple, binary code, using logic and what he called "numerical tricks." These simpler elements of instructions were stored in an "instruction cache" and used piecemeal, as necessary, allowing the system to reach the same results as before but much more quickly.
Although he considers himself "fantastically lazy," John Cocke is a true giant of the history of computing, and is one of the very few engineers to have won both the National Medal of Technology (1991) and the National Medal of Science (1994).
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 Civil War in Powhatan - Cocke of Belmead
Cocke’s story is especially interesting in that he possessed one true intent in the war--to equal the distinction his father attained during the War of 1812.
Cocke was born on April 17, 1809 and raised in the area of Bremo.
Cocke was commissioned a general by the State of Virginia; he was briefly separated from the Troop but reunited just prior to Manassas.
www.powhatanva.com /civilwar/belmead.htm   (727 words)

  
 Guardian | John Cocke
Cocke was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and studied at Duke University, where his father - who was president of the Duke power company - served on the board of trustees.
Cocke and his team started to design the computer controller, which became the 801 minicomputer, named after the building where they worked.
Cocke was something of an eccentric, and reportedly could forget to cash his pay cheques or change his clothes.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4469781-103684,00.html   (0 words)

  
 The Franklin Institute Certficates of Merit - John Cocke   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Cocke's concept of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) resulted from his detailed study of the trade-offs between high performance machine organization and compiler optimization.
Cocke's RISC concept was contrary to the established direction of increasingly complex instruction sets and machines, and was consequently at variance with the dominant ideas of that time.
John Cocke was with the IBM Research Division from 1956 to 1992.
www.fi.edu /tfi/exhibits/cocke.html   (615 words)

  
 ACM John Cocke - Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cocke was the principal designer of the types of microprocessors used as the engine in RISC - reduced instruction-set computers, which include large, powerful computers as well as the Apple Macintosh personal computer.
Cocke was awarded ACM's prestigious Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computer science, for "significant contributions in the design and theory of compilers, the architecture of large systems and the development of reduced instruction set computers (RISC)," as the citation noted.
Cocke was a founder and key innovator of the technology of compiler optimization, now used systematically throughout the computer industry to enable computers programmed in higher level languages to reach efficiency levels comparable to more expensive and time-consuming programming techniques.
www.acm.org /announcements/cocke_obit.html   (365 words)

  
 Fellow Awards | 2002 Recipient John Cocke
John Cocke was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 25, 1925 and passed away on July 16, 2002 in Valhalla, NY.
Among his many achievements, Cocke was made an IBM Fellow in 1972, and was awarded the National Medal of Technology (1991), the Turing Award (1987), and the National Medal of Science (1994).
Cocke held a B.S. in mechanical engineering (1946) and a Ph.D. in mathematics (1956) both from Duke University.
www.computerhistory.org /fellowawards/index.php?id=83   (0 words)

  
 John Ewing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Both Charles Cocke and John Ewing were "long-hunters" and made several claims to land in the Powell Valley.
Second, if John Ewing had waited until 1770-71 to move to Cripple Creek, then Charles and Ellender would not have had very much time to meet, marry and conceive their first child Jane, who was born in 1772.
Interestingly, if John Ewing did move to Prince Edward County around 1760, there is a chance that he ran into the Charles and Jester Cocke from Lunenburg County sometime during their westward move to Cripple Creek.
home.southwind.net /~crowther/Cocke/JohnEwing.htm   (1860 words)

  
 Grizzard: Construction of UVA: 1996: Master's Thesis Text   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When Cocke was away from home on his frequent trips to oversee the work of his other plantations, Ann conducted affairs on the homefront with care, keeping her husband informed by mail of her progress.
Cocke's response to the Deportaton Act of 1806 has not survived but he would have been adamantly opposed to the measure, not because he was against encouraging freedmen to leave the state, but because its restrictions discouraged slaveowners from freeing slaves at all.
Cocke was warned by one friend not to marry her; his position did not warrant it and haste would be regrettable.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /jefferson/grizzard/thesis/thesburd.html   (10580 words)

  
 Brazure Cocke (c.1694-1770)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dibdall's brother John HOLT served as mayor of Williamsburg and later published newspapers in New York City and Norfolk VA. Dibdall is named in John HOLT's will, dated Oct. 1, 1749, proved Oct. 30, 1784, in New York.
On May 3, 1759, Thomas COCKE "of Cumberland County" conveyed 162 acres of land in Brunswick Co., VA, to John GUNTER, Jr., beginning at the mouth of Rocky Run and adjoining lands of DAVID, Wm.
Cocke acquired a great deal of land in Henrico County and one such tract of land was Malvern Hill.
www.moonzstuff.com /Cheek/CockeBrazure.html   (2171 words)

  
 John Cocke
The evidence that this John Cocke was the son of Charles Cocke and Ellender Ewing is fairly conclusive:
The John Cocke mentioned in the Will appears to be the John Cocke who married Mary Evart Vaughan, since, in 1797, they sold 200 acres of land along Trading Creek to James Fulkerson.
During his stay in Wayne County, John Cocke appears to have involved in some kind of dispute with a couple of individuals, leading to accusations that he had stolen a horse and (of all things!) a beehive.
home.southwind.net /~crowther/Cocke/CockeJohn.htm   (717 words)

  
 News - Duke Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science - Pratt
Cocke, born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1925, returned to Duke to earn his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1956.
Cocke is an active alumnus, contributing both his time and financial assistance to Duke.
Certainly Cocke is a well respected scientist who has also found time to contribute to his alma mater.
www.mems.duke.edu /news/?id=346   (736 words)

  
 Descendants of John Jr. Headrick/ Hedrick
John Headrick died leaving a tract of land, and personal property consisting of wagons, horses, cattle, and stock of all kinds, and farming utensils of every kind and description in the state of Missouri.
In the census records, Mary's children are not even close to this John Justice's age (the one in Arkansas) and she would had to give birth at the age of 12 to make it work.
John Lige was married and he was trying to get the family back together, if he is Jack's son he was very young when he had John Lige (both families say Jack is John Lige's father).
www.geocities.com /astraleyeeee2000/JohnJrHedrickHeadrick.html   (7631 words)

  
 Notes and documents for Jester Cocke
the son of John Cocke born circa 1770 in Virginia, and probably the brother of Jester Sr.
The name is spelled Cocke in most of the early records and Cox in may of the later records.
John Cocke and Mary Everett, his wife, sold, 11 Sept. 1797, a tract of 200 acres for 130 pounds, to James Fulkerson.
www.acetipton.net /jester01.html   (1624 words)

  
 Notes and documents for Jester Cocke
JOHN COCKE was born 1770 in Virginia, and died 1843 in Madison County Alabama.
John Cocke is approximately the same age as Jester Cocke Jr.
COCKE, all infants under 21; petition is for distribution of slaves.
www.acetipton.net /coxjohn.html   (1644 words)

  
 IBM Research | Press Resources | IBM Fellow John Cocke passed away on July 16th
IBM Fellow, John Cocke, the "father of RISC architecture," passed away on July 16th, 2002 after a long illness.
Among his many honors, John was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1994 by President Clinton and the National Medal of Technology in 1991 by President Bush.
Another critical area of John's work revolved around "logic simulation." John invented a generalized special-purpose logic simulator, which runs many orders of magnitude faster than conventional simulations.
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 Merkel & Cocke, P.A. - Attorneys at Law
We are one of the largest plaintiff law firms in Northern Mississippi as well as the largest in "The Mississippi Delta." For over 20 years, we have handled cases throughout Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, and have handled cases from California to New York.
and John H. Cocke, of Merkel & Cocke, P.A. have been listed as “super lawyers” in the prestigious and selective Mid-South Super Lawyers 2006 magazine, from the publishers of Law & Politics.
The attorneys at Merkel and Cocke are committed to providing the highest quality legal services to our clients.
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 Fwd: IBM Scientist John Cocke Receives Medal from President   (Site not responding. Last check: )
djf IBM Scientist John Cocke Receives Medal from President Clinton December 19, 1994 In a ceremony today in Washington, D.C., John Cocke, a retired IBM Fellow and computer scientist, received the nation's highest scientific honor from President Clinton.
Cocke was awarded the National Medal of Science for pioneering the development of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture and optimizing compiler technology.
Cocke was recognized for "his contributions to computer science in the design and theory of compilers, and for major advances in the theory and practice of high-performance computer systems.
www.interesting-people.org /archives/interesting-people/199412/msg00050.html   (227 words)

  
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John died between 25 Jan 1787, the date of his will and 5 Mar 1788, the the date his will was recorded for probate in Montgomery County, Virginia.
Ordered that Charles Cocks (sic) be recommended to his Excellency the Governor as a fit and proper person for Captain of the Militia of the County of Washington and that Joshua Bucher Lieutenant and Hugh Campbell Ensign.
The said Cocke was always esteemed a brave and vigilant officer, and although in command, a vigilant, unremitting and active spy.
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 Just Curious: An Interview with John Cocke
A legend in computer architecture and perhaps best known as a pioneer of ideas that led to reduced instruction set computing, John Cocke has designed machines that still influence processor design today.
Computer talked to Cocke about how he became interested in computers and the projects for which he is famous: the IBM Stretch, Advanced Computer System (ACS), and the 801, RS6000, and PowerPC processors.
Cocke recounts how he chose the name based on a story about the first America's Cup yacht race.
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 Computer: An Interview with John Cocke
A legend in the computer architecture community, John Cocke has been involved in the design of several machines that have made a tremendous impact on current processor design, including the IBM Stretch; the Advanced Computer System (ACS); and the 801, RS/6000, and PowerPC processors.
Perhaps best known as a pioneer of ideas that led to reduced instruction set computing (RISC), Cocke is also much admired for a broad interest in and understanding of technology that spans mathematics, compilers, architecture, circuits, packaging, and design automation, to name a few.
Cocke: When you couple machines tightly, you get a lot of interference, and the addition of the second machine doesn’t come close to doubling performance.
www.landley.net /history/mirror/ibm/Cocke.htm   (3013 words)

  
 COCKE, John (1772-1854) Guide to Research Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A letter from John Cocke to Andrew Jackson written on October 2, 1813.
In the letter, John Cocke discusses the operations of Tennessee volunteers during the Creek War.
The letter informs Andrew Jackson of arrangements made by John Cocke for procurement of food and for movements of soldiers under John Cocke’s command.
bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=C000571   (52 words)

  
 DBLP: John Cocke
John Cocke, Victoria Markstein: The evolution of RISC technology at IBM.
Peter F. Brown, John Cocke, Stephen Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Frederick Jelinek, Robert L. Mercer, Paul S. Roossin: A statistical approach to language translation.
John Cocke, Peter W. Markstein: Communication: Strenght Reduction for Division and Modulo with Application to Accessing a Multilevel Store.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Cocke:John.html   (332 words)

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