	Title: Your Students Are Your Legacy
	Name: David Patterson
	U.C. Berkeley
	Time: October 14 (Wednesday) 11:00-12:00
	Location: Lecture Hall, FIT Building, Tsinghua University
	Host Unit: ITCS, Tsinghua University

This talk boils down into a few slides what I've learned in my 32 years of mentoring Ph.D. students. My advice to advisors is to get your students off to a good start, create stimulating research environments, help them acquire research taste, be a good role model, bolster student confidence, teach them to speak well publicly, and help them up if they stumble, for students are the real coins of the academic realm.

This talk is based on a paper with the same title that appeared in Communications of the ACM Volume 52 , Issue 3 (March 2009), pages 30-33.

David Patterson is one of the pioneers of Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC), Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and Network of Workstations (NOW), all of which led to billion dollar industries. His current projects include the RAD Lab: Reliable Adaptive Distributed systems, RAMP: Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors, and the Parallel Computing Laboratory. His 30+ year career at UC Berkeley has led to 30 awards for research, teaching, and service, including election to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.