Citation:

The award of $2,500 is given annually for an outstanding contribution to computer architecture made by an individual whose computer-related professional career (graduate school or full-time employment, whichever began first) started no earlier than January 1st of the year that is 20 years prior to the time of nomination.

The award is presented annually at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture Awards Banquet.

Selection Process:

The recipient of the Maurice Wilkes Award is selected by a vote of the SIGARCH Executive Committee and Board from a list of nominees submitted by the SIGARCH Awards Committee.

The SIGARCH Awards Committee consists of three members. Each member of the committee is selected by the Chair of SIGARCH to serve a three year term, with one new member added to the committee each year. Each committee member will serve as the Chair of the Awards Committee during their second year on the committee. Each year at least one member of the Awards Committee should be a member of the SIGARCH Executive Committee or Board, and at least one member should not be a member of the SIGARCH Executive Committee or Board. The Awards Committee should nominate from one to three candidates for selection by the SIGARCH Executive Committee and Board. The Awards Committee should transmit supporting materials for its nominees, along with a ranking of the nominees if appropriate, to the SIGARCH Chair. When a winner is selected, the SIGARCH Chair and the Awards Committee Chair will choose a citation for the Award.

Nominations should consist of:

  1. Name, address, and phone number of person making the nomination.
  2. Name and address of candidate for whom the award is recommended.
  3. A statement (between 200 and 500 words long) as to why the candidate deserves the award.
  4. The name(s) and email address(es) or telephone number(s) of others who agree with the recommendation.
    Supporting letters from such persons are useful, but not required.

Selection Milestones:

Each year the SIGARCH Chair should appoint the new member of the Awards Committee by December 15th, and should prepare by that date a Call for Nominations, which includes the award citation and the Award Committee's contact information, for paper and electronic distribution. The Call should be mailed to appropriate mailing lists, printed in the first issue of Computer Architecture News following the 15th of December, and made available to any computer architecture conferences that occur before the nomination deadline.

The nomination deadline should be set for at least 8 weeks before the start of the award year's ISCA conference. The Awards Committee should take no more than three weeks after the deadline to select their nominees. The SIGARCH Executive Committee and Board should take no more than a week from the delivery of nominations from the Awards Committee to make their selection. After a citation is determined, no less than four weeks from the start of the ISCA conference, the SIGARCH Chair will inform the winner, and inform ACM Headquarters of the decision so that a plaque can be ordered and a check drawn in time for delivery to the ISCA conference.

Winners:

  • 2009 - Shubu Mukherjee
  • 2008 - Sarita Adve
  • 2007 - Todd Austin
  • 2006 - Doug Burger
  • 2005 - Steve Scott
  • 2004 - Kourosh Gharachorloo
  • 2003 - Dirk Meyer
  • 2002 - Glenn Hinton
  • 2001 - Anant Agarwal
  • 2000 - William J. Dally
  • 1999 - Gurindar S. Sohi
  • 1998 - Wen-mei Hwu

    Current Awards Committee:

    David A. Wood, Chair
    Computer Sciences Department
    The University of Wisconsin-Madison
    1210 West Dayton St.
    Madison, WI 53706-1685
    david@cs.wisc.edu

    Mary Jane Irwin
    Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
    Pennsylvania State University
    348C Information Sciences and Technology Building
    University Park, PA 16802
    mji@cse.psu.edu

    Pradip Bose
    IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr.
    P. O. Box 218
    Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
    pbose@us.ibm.com