The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) is an annual academic conference on

computer architecture In computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It can sometimes be a high-level description that ignores details of the implementation. At a more detailed level, the ...

, generally viewed as the top-tier in the field.

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (ACM SIGARCH) and

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operat ...

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are technical sponsors. ISCA has participated in the

Federated Computing Research Conference The Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC, is an event that brings together several academic conferences, workshops, and plenary talks in the field of computer science. FCRC has been organised in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and ...

in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015, every year that the conference has been organized.

Influential Paper Award

The ISCA Influential Paper Award is presented annually at ISCA by SIGARCH and TCCA. The award is given for the paper with the most impact in the field (in the area of research, development, products, or ideas) from the conference 15 years ago. Prior recipients include: * 2022 (For ISCA 2007): Xiaobo Fan, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André Barroso. "Power Provisioning for a Warehouse-sized Computer" * 2021 (For ISCA 2006): James Donald,

Margaret Martonosi Margaret Martonosi is an American computer scientist who is currently the Hugh Trumbull Adams '35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Martonosi is noted for her research in computer architecture and mobile computing with a part ...

. "Techniques for Multicore Thermal Management: Classification and New Exploration" * 2020 (For ISCA 2005): Rakesh Kumar, Victor V. Zyuban, Dean M. Tullsen. "Interconnections in Multi-Core Architectures: Understanding Mechanisms, Overheads and Scaling" * 2019 (For ISCA 2004): Lance Hammond, Vicky Wong, Mike Chen, Brian D. Carlstrom, John D. Davis, Ben Hertzberg, Manohar K. Prabhu, Honggo Wijaya,

Christos Kozyrakis Christos (Christoforos) Kozyrakis ( gr, Χρίστος (Χριστόφορος) Κοζυράκης; born 1974) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads the multi-scale architecture & syst ...

, Kunle Olukotun. "Transactional Memory Coherence and Consistency" * 2018 (For ISCA 2003): Kevin Skadron, Mircea R. Stan, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Wei Huang, Sivakumar Velusamy, David Tarjan. "Temperature-Aware Microarchitecture" * 2017 (2002) - Krisztian Flautner, Nam Sung Kim, Steven Martin, David Blaauw,

Trevor Mudge Trevor Mudge is a computer scientist, academic and researcher. He is the Bredt Family Chair of Computer Science and Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His research interests in ...

. "Drowsy caches: simple techniques for reducing leakage power" * 2016 (2001) - Brian Fields, Shai Rubin, Rastislav Bodík, * 2015 (2000) - David Brooks, Vivek Tiwari, and Margaret Martonosi, * 2014 (1999) - Seth Copen Goldstein, Herman Schmit, Matthew Moe, Mihai Budiu, Srihari Cadambi, R. Reed Taylor, and Ronald Laufer * 2013 (1998) - Srilatha Manne, Artur Klauser, Dirk Grunwald, * 2012 (1997) - Subbarao Palacharla,

Norman P. 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 ...

, James E. Smith * 2011 (1996) - Dean M. Tullsen,

Susan J. Eggers Susan J. Eggers is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computer architecture and compilers. "Eggers is best known for her foundational work in developing and helping to commercialize simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) proces ...

, Joel S. Emer, Henry M. Levy, Jack L. Lo, and Rebecca L. Stamm * 2010 (1995) - Dean M. Tullsen,

, and Henry M. Levy * 2009 (1994) - Jeffrey Kuskin, David Ofelt, Mark Heinrich, John Heinlein, Richard Simoni, Kourosh Gharachorloo, John Chapin, David Nakahira, Joel Baxter,

Mark Horowitz Mark A. Horowitz is the Yahoo! Founders Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and holds a joint appointment in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. He is a co-founder of Rambus Inc., now a techno ...

, Anoop Gupta, Mendel Rosenblum, and

John L. Hennessy John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist, academician and businessman who serves as Chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. as well as Atheros and served as ...

* 2008 (1993) -

Maurice Herlihy Maurice Peter Herlihy (born 4 January 1954) is a computer scientist active in the field of multiprocessor synchronization. Herlihy has contributed to areas including theoretical foundations of wait-free synchronization, linearizable data structure ...

and

J. Eliot B. Moss J. Eliot B. Moss is a computer scientist active in the fields of garbage collection and multiprocessor synchronization. He is co-inventor with Maurice Herlihy of transactional memory. He is currently (2012) a Professor of computer science at Unive ...

, * 2007 (1992) - Tse-Yu Yeh and Yale N. Patt * 2006 (1991) - Pohua P. Chang, Scott A. Mahlke, William Y. Chen, Nancy J. Warter, and Wen-mei W. Hwu * 2005 (1990) - Norman P. Jouppi, * 2004 (1989) - Steven Przybylski,

, and Mark Horowitz * 2003 (1988) -

Jean-Loup Baer Jean-Loup Baer is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. Biography Jean-Loup Baer received the Diplome d'Ingénieur in Electrical Engineering and the Doctorat 3e cycle in Computer Science from the Universit ...

and Wen-Hann Wang

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