Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology

Appendix III 545Instruments scientific computer and for playing a leading role inmany other computing developments in that company.”1987 Gene M. Amdahl: “For outstanding innovations in computerarchitecture, including pipelining, instruction look-ahead,and cache memory.”1988 Daniel P. Siewiorek: “For outstanding contributions inparallel computer architecture, reliability, and computer architectureeducation.”1989 Seymour Cray: “For a career of achievements that haveadvanced supercomputing design.”1990 Kenneth E. Batcher: “For contributions to parallel computerarchitecture, both for pioneering theories in interconnectionnetworks and for the pioneering implementations ofparallel computers.”1991 Burton J. Smith: “For pioneering work in the design andimplementation of scalable shared memory multiprocessors.”1992 Michael J. Flynn: “For his important and seminal contributionsto processor organization and classification, computerarithmetic and performance evaluation.”1993 David Kuck: “For his impact on the field of supercomputing,including his work in shared memory multiprocessing,clustered memory hierarchies, compiler technology, and application/librarytuning.”1994 James E. Thornton: “For his pioneering work on highperformanceprocessors; for inventing the ‘scoreboard’ forinstruction issue; and for fundamental contributions to vectorsupercomputing.”1995 John Crawford: “In recognition of your impact on thecomputer industry through your development of microprocessortechnology.”1996 Yale N. Patt: “For important contributions to instructionlevel parallelism and superscalar processor design.”1997 Robert Tomasulo: “For the ingenious Tomasulo’s algorithm,which enabled out-of-order execution processors to beimplemented.”1998 T. Watanabe: [Citation not available, but NEC notes thatWatanabe “was a chief architect for NEC’s first supercomputer,the SX-2, and is recognized for his significant contributions tothe architectural design of supercomputers having multiple, parallelvector pipelines and programmable vector caches.”]1999 James E. Smith: “For fundamental contributions to highperformancemicroarchitecture, including saturating countersfor branch prediction, reorder buffers for precise exceptions,decoupled access/execute architectures, and vector supercomputerorganization, memory, and interconnects.”2000 Edward Davidson: “For his seminal contributions to thedesign, implementation, and performance evaluation of highperformancepipelines and multiprocessor systems.”2001 John Hennessy: “For being the founder and chief architectof the MIPS Computer Systems and contributing to thedevelopment of the landmark MIPS R2000 microprocessor.”2002 B. Ramakrishna (Bob) Rau: “For pioneering contributionsto statistically scheduled instruction-level parallel processorsand their compilers.”2003 Joseph A. (Josh) Fisher: “In recognition of 25 years ofseminal contributions to instruction-level parallelism, pioneeringwork on VLIW architectures, and the formulation of theTrace Scheduling compilation technique.”2004 Frederick P. Brooks: “For the definition of computerarchitecture and contributions to the concept of computer familiesand to the principles of instruction set design; for seminalcontributions in instruction sequencing, including interruptsystems and execute instructions; and for contributions to theIBM 360 instruction set architecture.”2005 Robert P. Colwell: “For outstanding achievements in thedesign and implementation of industry-changing microarchitectures,and for significant contributions to the RISC/CISC architecturedebate.”2006 James H. Pomerene: “For pioneering innovations in computerarchitecture, including early concepts in cache, reliablememories, pipelining and branch prediction, for the design of theIAS computer and for the design of the Harvest supercomputer.”2007 Mateo Valero: “For extraordinary leadership in buildinga world class computer architecture research center, for seminalcontributions in the areas of vector computing and multithreading,and for pioneering basic new approaches to instructionlevelparallelism.”2008 David Patterson: “For seminal contributions to RISCmicroprocessor architectures, RAID storage systems design, andreliable computing, and for leadership in education and in disseminatingacademic research results into successful industrialproducts.”Grace Murray Hopper AwardThe ACM gives this award for “the outstanding young computerprofessional of the year . . . selected on the basis of asingle recent major technical or service contribution.”Annual RecipientsNote: this award has not been given every year.1971 Donald E. Knuth: “For the publication in 1968 (at age30) of Volume I of his monumental treatise ‘The Art of ComputerProgramming.’ ”