Maurice Wilkes Award Explained

The Association for Computing Machinery SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award is given annually for outstanding contribution to computer architecture by a young computer scientist or engineer; "young" defined as having a career that started within the last 20 years.^[1] The award is named after Maurice Wilkes, a computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing such as microprogramming. The award is presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Prior recipients include:

• 1998 – Wen-mei Hwu
• 1999 – Gurindar S. Sohi
• 2000 – William J. Dally
• 2001 – Anant Agarwal
• 2002 – Glenn Hinton
• 2003 – Dirk Meyer
• 2004 – Kourosh Gharachorloo
• 2005 – Steve Scott
• 2006 – Doug Burger
• 2007 – Todd Austin
• 2008 – Sarita Adve
• 2009 – Shubu Mukherjee
• 2010 – Andreas Moshovos
• 2011 – Kevin Skadron
• 2012 – David Brooks
• 2013 – Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan^[2]
• 2014 – Ravi Rajwar^[3]
• 2015 – Christos Kozyrakis^[4]
• 2016 – Timothy Sherwood^[5]
• 2017 – Lieven Eeckhout^[6]
• 2018 – Gabriel Loh^[7]
• 2019 – Onur Mutlu^[8]
• 2020 – Luis Ceze and Karin Strauss^[9]
• 2021 – Thomas Wenisch^[10]
• 2022 – Moinuddin Qureshi
• 2023 – Abhishek Bhattacharjee

See also

• ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture
• Computer engineering
• Computer science
• Computing
• List of computer science awards
• List of computer-related awards

External links

• Official page

Notes and References

1. Web site: ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award. SIGARCH. 12 December 2011.
2. 2013 Maurice Wilkes Award Given to Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan. IEEE Micro. IEEE. 10.1109/MM.2013.136. 2014. Scott. Steve. 34. 90–91. free.
3. Web site: Alumnus wins Maurice Wilkes Award. Department of Computer Sciences. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 4 June 2017.
4. Web site: 2015 Maurice Wilkes Award presented to Christos Kozyrakis. Stanford Engineering. Stanford University. 3 June 2017.
5. Web site: Prof. Tim Sherwood wins 2016 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award. University of California Santa Barbara. University of California. 3 June 2017.
6. Web site: Prof. Lieven Eeckhout wins the 2017 Maurice Wilkes Award. Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Belgium.
7. Web site: AMD Engineer Gabriel Loh Named 2018 Maurice Wilkes Award Winner for Outstanding Contributions to Die-Stacked Architectures. Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara.
8. Web site: ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award goes to Prof. Onur Mutlu. inf.ethz.ch. en. 2024-06-12.
9. Web site: Luis Ceze and Karin Strauss share ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award for their work on DNA-based digital data storage. news.cs.washington.edu. en. 22 June 2020.
10. Web site: Thomas Wenisch selected as Maurice Wilkes Award Recipient. cse.engin.umich.edu. en. 24 June 2022.