Richard Lewis Mattson (born May 29, 1935)[1] is an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work on using memory trace data to simulate the performance of the memory hierarchy.
[1] He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957, with honors in electrical engineering.
[6] He became a student of Bernard Widrow at Stanford University, where he completed his doctorate in 1962.
His dissertation was The Analysis and Synthesis of Adaptive Systems Which Use Networks of Threshold Elements.
[8] While at Stanford, he supervised two doctoral students, John Hopcroft and Yale Patt, both of whom themselves became notable computer scientists, and he has many academic descendants through both of them.