Eckert-Mauchly Award
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The Eckert–Mauchly Award recognizes contributions to digital systems and computer architecture
. First awarded in 1979, it was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who between 1943 and 1946 collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing machine, known as ENIAC
, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. A certificate and $5,000 are awarded jointly by the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society
for outstanding contributions to the field of computer and digital systems architecture.
Computer architecture
In computer science and engineering, computer architecture is the practical art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals and the formal modelling of those systems....
. First awarded in 1979, it was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who between 1943 and 1946 collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing machine, known as ENIAC
ENIAC
ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems....
, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. A certificate and $5,000 are awarded jointly by the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
(ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE Computer Society is a professional society of IEEE. Its purpose and scope is “to advance the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing science and technology” and the “professional standing of its members.” The CS is the largest of 38 technical societies...
for outstanding contributions to the field of computer and digital systems architecture.
Recipients
- 1979 Robert S. Barton
- 1980 Maurice V. Wilkes
- 1981 Wesley A. ClarkWesley A. ClarkWesley Allison Clark is a computer scientist and one of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer, which was the first mini-computer and shares with a number of other computers the claim to be the inspiration for the personal computer.Clark...
- 1982 Gordon C. Bell
- 1983 Tom KilburnTom KilburnTom Kilburn CBE, FRS was an English engineer. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams Tube and the world's first stored-program computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine , while working at the University of Manchester.-Computer engineering:Kilburn was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire and...
- 1984 Jack B. Dennis
- 1985 John CockeJohn CockeJohn Cocke was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."...
- 1986 Harvey G. Cragon
- 1987 Gene M. Amdahl
- 1988 Daniel P. Siewiorek
- 1989 Seymour CraySeymour CraySeymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which would build many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing," Cray has been credited...
- 1990 Kenneth E. Batcher
- 1991 Burton J. Smith
- 1992 Michael J. FlynnMichael J. FlynnMichael J. Flynn is an American professor emeritus at Stanford University. He co-founded Palyn Associates with Max Paley and is Chairman of Maxeler Technologies. He proposed Flynn's taxonomy in 1966....
- 1993 David J. Kuck
- 1994 James E. Thornton
- 1995 John CrawfordJohn Crawford (engineer)John H. Crawford is an American computer engineer and the chief architect of the Intel 80386 and Intel 80486 microprocessors. He also co-managed the design of the Intel P5 Pentium microprocessor family. Crawford was the recipient of the 1995 Eckert–Mauchly Award. He was awarded the IEEE Ernst...
- 1996 Yale PattYale PattYale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon...
- 1997 Robert TomasuloRobert TomasuloRobert Marco Tomasulo was a computer scientist, and the inventor of the Tomasulo algorithm. Tomasulo was the recipient of the 1997 Eckert–Mauchly Award "[f]or the ingenious Tomasulo's algorithm, which enabled out-of-order execution processors to be implemented."On January 30, 2008, Tomasulo spoke...
- 1998 T. WatanabeTadashi Watanabeis a Japanese computer engineer. Watanabe is the project manager of the RIKEN Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center. He played a central role in the development of the NEC SX architecture. Watanabe was awarded the Eckert–Mauchly Award in 1998, and the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering...
- 1999 James E. SmithJames E. Smith (engineer)James E. Smith is a computer engineer and an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Smith was awarded the 1999 Eckert–Mauchly Award "for fundamental contributions to high performance micro-architecture, including saturating counters for branch prediction, reorder buffers...
- 2000 Edward DavidsonEdward S. DavidsonEdward S. Davidson is a professor emeritus in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.His research interests include computer architecture, pipelining theory, parallel processing, performance modeling, intelligent caches, and application tuning...
- 2001 John HennessyJohn L. HennessyJohn LeRoy Hennessy is an American computer scientist and academician. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. and is the 10th President of Stanford University.-Background:...
- 2002 Bantwal Ramakrishna "Bob" RauBob RauBantwal Ramakrishna "Bob" Rau was a computer engineer. Rau was a founder and chief architect of Cydrome, where he helped develop the Very long instruction word technology that is now standard in modern computer processors. Rau was the recipient of the 2002 Eckert–Mauchly Award.-External links:* *...
- 2003 Joseph A. (Josh) Fisher
- 2004 Frederick P. Brooks
- 2005 Robert P. Colwell
- 2006 James H. PomereneJames H. PomereneJames Herbert Pomerene was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer.-Biography:Pomerene was born June 22, 1920 in Yonkers, New York. His father was Joel Pomerene and mother was Elsie Bower...
- 2007 Mateo ValeroMateo ValeroMateo Valero is a Spanish computer architect. Valero received the Eckert-Mauchly award of the in 2007, for "extraordinary leadership in building a world class computer architecture research center, for seminal contributions in the areas of vector computing and multithreading, and for pioneering...
- 2008 David Patterson
- 2009 Joel EmerJoel EmerDr Joel Emer is a pioneer in computer performance analysis techniques and a microprocessor architect. He is currently an Intel Fellow. He was the 2009 recipient of the Eckert-Mauchly Award, an ACM/IEEE joint award for contributions to computer and digital systems architecture. Dr Emer received...
- 2010 Bill Dally
- 2011 Gurindar S. Sohi