Paul Chow received the BASc degree with honours in Engineering Science, and the MASc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., in 1977, 1979 and 1984, respectively. In 1984 he joined the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, as a Research Associate, where he was a major contributor to an early RISC microprocessor design called MIPS-X, one of the first microprocessors with an on-chip instruction cache. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in January 1988, where he is now a Professor. He is a previous holder of the Dusan and Anne Miklas Chair in Engineering Design.