ACM SIGARCH / IEEE-CS TCCA Influential ISCA Paper Award, Call for Nominations

The award recognizes a paper from ISCA Proceedings 18 to 22 years prior (ISCA 2004 – 2008) that has had the most impact on the field (in terms of research, development, products or ideas) during the intervening years.
The selection committee will consider all papers from that period with at least 100 citations in the ACM Digital Library or IEEE Xplore. Additionally, the community can nominate papers that don’t already meet this bar.

To nominate a paper, please fill out this google form. Self nominations are not allowed.

The deadline for nominations is March 13, 2026. For additional details on the award and process, please see this link. The list of candidate papers and their citation counts can be seen here.

Please send inquiries to Sandhya Dwarkadas <sandhya@virginia.edu> and Rajeev Balasubramonian <rajeev@cs.utah.edu>.