The Eckert–Mauchly Award recognizes contributions to digital systems and
computer architecture
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. It is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. First awarded in 1979, it was named for
John Presper Eckert
John Adam Presper Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in co ...
and
John William Mauchly
John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first co ...
, who between 1943 and 1946 collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing machine, known as
ENIAC
ENIAC (; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. There were other computers that had these features, but the ENIAC had all of them in one packa ...
, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. A certificate and $5,000 are awarded jointly by the
Association for Computing Machinery
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(ACM) and the
IEEE Computer Society
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for outstanding contributions to the field of computer and digital systems architecture.
Recipients
* 1979
Robert S. Barton
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* 1980
Maurice V. Wilkes
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* 1981
Wesley A. Clark
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Tom Kilburn
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* 1984
Jack B. Dennis
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The work of Dennis in computer systems and computer languages is recogniz ...
Seymour Cray
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Kenneth E. Batcher
* 1991
Burton J. Smith
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Education
Smith graduated from the Cate School in Carpinteria, California in 1958, where he established himself as ...
* 1992
Michael J. Flynn
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Early life and education
Flynn was born in New York City.
Career
Flynn proposed Flynn's taxonomy, a method of classifying parallel digital compute ...
James E. Thornton
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Thornton studied electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota earning a bachelor's degree in 1950. Immediately afterward ...
Robert Tomasulo
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Frederick P. Brooks
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Bill Dally
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Microelectronics
He developed a number of t ...
James R. Goodman
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Education and research
Goodman re ...
Norman Jouppi
Norman Paul Jouppi is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist.
Career
Jouppi was one of the computer architects at the MIPS Stanford University Project (under John L. Hennessy), an early RISC project. He received his master's d ...
Charles P. Thacker
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Biography
Tha ...
Margaret Martonosi
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* 2022
Mark Horowitz
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Computer engineering
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Computer science
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Computing
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List of computer science awards
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