MIPS was started by Stanford people including Hennessy whose CPU architecture book (Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface) is famous

MIPS was started by Stanford people including Hennessy whose CPU architecture book (Computer Organization and Design: the Hardware/Software Interface) is famous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy -- since then he returned, and is now Stanford's president.