8 Quotes & Sayings By Leroy Hood

Leroy Hood is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a recipient of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, and an ACM Fellow in the area of Operating Systems. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a Fellow in the ACM Special Interest Group on Parallel Algorithms and Computation Structures (SIGPAS). Hood was named a "Distinguished Lecturer" at Harvard in 2014, and in 2017 was named a Distinguished Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, where he will serve as a "Professor-at-Large," with a research focus on software architecture Read more

He has been honored with fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, DARPA, university grants from Harvard College and Princeton University, and numerous awards from ACM SIGACT, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS), and ACM SIGCOMM. He has been awarded seven patents in computer systems technology, five in network computing technology, two in distributed computing technology, two in parallel computing technology, and one in operating systems technology.

He has authored or coauthored more than 300 papers and served as editor or coeditor for three books: A Software Architecture: Foundations, Modules and Design (coauthored with Chuck Hayes), Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (coauthored with Tom Leighton), and Parallel Computers: Principles and Practice (coauthored with Eric Grimson).

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Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems. Leroy Hood
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Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent. Leroy Hood
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My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful. Leroy Hood
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All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer. Leroy Hood
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Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness. Leroy Hood
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What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that. Leroy Hood
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The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market. Leroy Hood