Robert P. Colwell 

2005

For outstanding achievements in the design and implementation of industry-changing microarchitectures, and for significant contributions to the RISC/CISC architecture debate.

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. 

2004

For the definition of computer architecture and contributions to the concept of computer families and to the principles of instruction set design; for seminal contributions in instruction sequencing, including interrupt systems and execute instructions; and for contributions to the IBM 360 instruction set architecture.

Joseph A. (Josh) Fisher

2003

In recognition of 25 years of seminal contributions to instruction-level parallelism, pioneering work on VLIW architectures, and the formulation of the Trace Scheduling compilation technique.

B. Ramakrishna (Bob) Rau

2002

For pioneering contributions to statically-scheduled instruction-level parallel processors and their compilers.

John Hennessy

2001

For being the founder and chief architect of the MIPS Computer Systems and contributing to the development of the landmark MIPS R2000 microprocessor.

Edward S. Davidson

2000

For seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance pipelines and multiprocessor systems.

James E. Smith

1999

For fundamental contributions to high performance micrarchitecture, including saturating counters for branch prediction, reorder buffers for precise exceptions, decoupled access/execute architectures, and vector supercomputer organization memory, and interconnects.

Tadashi Watanabe

1998

For contributions to the architectural design of supercomputers with multiple/parallel vector pipelines and programmable vector caches.

Robert Tomasulo

1997

For the ingenious Tomasulo's algorithm, which enabled
out-of-order execution processors to be implemented.

Yale N. Patt

1996

For important contributions to instruction level parallelism and superscalar processor design.

John H. Crawford

1995

In recognition of your impact on the computer industry through your development of microprocessor technology.

James E. Thornton

1994

For his pioneering work on high performance processors; for inventing the scoreboard for instruction issue; and for fundamental contributions to vector supercomputing.

David Kuck

1993

For his impact on the field of supercomputing, including his work in shared memory multiprocessing, clustered memory hierarchies, compiler technology, and application/library tuning.

Michael J. Flynn

1992

For his important and seminal contributions to processor organization and classification, computer arithmetic and performance evaluation.

Burton Smith

1991

For pioneering work in the design and implementation of scalable shared memory multiprocessors.

Kenneth Batcher

1990

For contributions to parallel computer architecture, both for pioneering theories in interconnection networks and for the pioneering implementations of parallel computers.

Seymour Cray

1989

For a career of achievements that have advanced supercomputer design.

Daniel P. Siewiorek

1988

For outstanding contributions in parallel computer architecture, reliability, and computer architecture education.

Gene M. Amdahl

1987

For outstanding innovations in computer architecture, including pipelining, instruction look- ahead and cache memory.

Harvey G. Cragon

1986

For major contributions to computer architecture and for pioneering the application of integrated circuits for computer purposes and for serving as architect of the Texas Instruments scientific computer and for playing a leading role in many other computing developments in that company.

John Cocke

1985

For contributions to high performance computer architecture through lookahead, parallelism and pipeline utilization, and to reduced instruction set computer architecture through the exploitation of hardware-software tradeoffs and compiler optimization.

Jack B. Dennis

1984

Tom Kilburn

1983

C. Gordon Bell

1982

Wesley A. Clark

1981

Maurice V. Wilkes

1980

Robert S. Barton

1979