| Michael Flynn | |
| Birth Date: | 20 May 1934 |
| Birth Place: | New York City |
| Nationality: | American |
| Workplaces: | Stanford University |
| Alma Mater: | Manhattan College Syracuse University Purdue University |
| Known For: | Flynn's taxonomy |
| Awards: | Harry H. Goode Memorial Award IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award |
Michael J. Flynn (born May 20, 1934)[1] is an American professor emeritus at Stanford University.[2]
Flynn was born in New York City.
Flynn proposed Flynn's taxonomy, a method of classifying parallel digital computers, in 1966.[3]
In the early 1970s, he was the founding chairman of IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA)[4] and Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture, ACM SIGARCH (initially SICARCH).[5] Flynn encouraged, from the beginning, joint cooperation between the two groups[6] which now sponsors many leading joint symposiums and conferences like ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA).[7]
In 1995 he received a Harry H. Goode Memorial Award.
In 2009, Flynn received an honorary doctorate from the University of Belgrade.
Flynn co-founded Palyn Associates with Maxwell Paley and in 2014 is Chairman of Maxeler Technologies.