In case you don't know who David Patterson is: * He pioneered RISC, and coined the term. About all smartphones are ARM-based * He came up with RAID, coined th

In case you don't know who David Patterson is: * He pioneered RISC, and coined the term. About all smartphones are ARM-based * He came up with RAID, coined the term. * He cofounded Berkeley's AMPLab, which is the birthplace of Spark. * Among other AMPLab activities he has are SNAP; It is about DNA analysis with the goal of helping solve cancer (which is an acquired genetic disease). In 2014 this project helped save a live [1] [1] https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/snap-helps-save-a-life/ https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/snap-helps-save-a-life/