The Association for Computing Machinery

SIGARCH ACM SIGARCH is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on computer architecture, a community of computer professionals and students from academia and industry involved in research and professional practice related to com ...

Maurice Wilkes Award is given annually for outstanding contribution to

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 ...

by a young computer scientist or engineer; "young" defined as having a career that started within the last 20 years. The award is named after Maurice Wilkes, a computer scientist credited with several important developments in

computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, ...

such as

microprogramming In processor design, microcode (μcode) is a technique that interposes a layer of computer organization between the central processing unit (CPU) hardware and the programmer-visible instruction set architecture of a computer. Microcode is a la ...

. The award is presented at the

International Symposium on Computer Architecture The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) is an annual academic conference on computer architecture, generally viewed as the top-tier in the field. Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Archi ...

. Prior recipients include: * 2022 - Moinuddin Qureshi * 2021 - Thomas Wenisch * 2020 - Luis Ceze and Karin Strauss * 2019 - Onur Mutlu *2018 - Gabriel Loh * 2017 – Lieven Eeckhout * 2016 – Timothy Sherwood * 2015 – Christos Kozyrakis * 2014 – Ravi Rajwar * 2013 – Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan * 2012 – David Brooks * 2011 – Kevin Skadron * 2010 – Andreas Moshovos * 2009 – Shubu Mukherjee * 2008 –

Sarita Adve Sarita Vikram Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power and reliability-aware sy ...

* 2007 – Todd Austin * 2006 – Doug Burger * 2005 – Steve Scott * 2004 – Kourosh Gharachorloo * 2003 –

Dirk Meyer Derrick R. "Dirk" Meyer (born November 24, 1961) is a former Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, serving in the position from July 18, 2008 to January 10, 2011. Education He received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering ...

* 2002 – Glenn Hinton * 2001 –

Anant Agarwal Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache cohere ...

* 2000 – William J. Dally * 1999 – Gurindar S. Sohi * 1998 – Wen-mei Hwu

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