The Influential ISCA Paper Award

Citation:

The ACM SIGARCH and IEEE-CS TCCA ISCA Influential Paper Award will be presented annually at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture. This award recognizes the paper from the ISCA Proceedings 15 years earlier that has had the most impact on the field (in terms of research, development, products or ideas) during the intervening years. The award includes an honorarium of $1,000 for the author(s) and a certificate.

Selection Process:

Candidate papers for the award will be selected by the current year's ISCA Program Committee, with the final selection to be made by a committee consisting of the ISCA Program Chair, the SIGARCH Chair, and the TCCA Chair.

Winners:

2009 (for ISCA 1994): Jeffrey Kuskin, David Ofelt, Mark Heinrich, John Heinlein, Richard Simoni, Kourosh Gharachorloo, John Chapin, David Nakahira, Joel Baxter, Mark Horowitz, Anoop Gupta, Mendel Rosenblum, and John Hennessy
"The Stanford FLASH multiprocessor"

2008 (for ISCA 1993): Maurice Herlihy and J. Eliot B. Moss
"Transactional memory: architectural support for lock-free data structures"

2007 (for ISCA 1992): Tse-Yu Yeh and Yale N. Patt
"Alternative Implementations of Two-Level Adaptive Branch Prediction"

2006 (for ISCA 1991): Pohua P. Chang, Scott A. Mahlke, William Y. Chen, Nancy J. Warter, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
"IMPACT: an architectural framework for multiple-instruction-issue processors"

2005 (for ISCA 1990): Norman P. Jouppi
"Improving Direct-Mapped Cache Performance by the Addition of a Small Fully-Associative Cache and Prefetch Buffers"

2004 (for ISCA 1989): Steven Przybylski, John Hennessy, and Mark Horowitz
"Characteristics of Performance-Optimal Multi-Level Cache Hierarchies"

2003 (for ISCA 1988): Jean-Loup Baer and Wen-Hann Wang
"On the inclusion properties for multi-level cache hierarchies"