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What is the name of the prestigious award John L. Hennessy received in 2017?

  • Nobel Prize

  • Pulitzer Prize

  • Turing Award

  • Fields Medal

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John L. Hennessy, along with David Patterson, received the 2017 Turing Award for their work in developing the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture. The Turing Award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing" and is awarded for major contributions in the field of computer science.
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