Eckert-Mauchly Award

For outstanding contributions to computer and digital systems architecture

The Eckert-Mauchly Award recognizes outstanding contributions to computer and digital systems architecture. The award was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who collaborated on the design and construction of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first large-scale computing machine, which was completed in 1947. A certificate and $5,000 are awarded jointly by the ACM and the Computer Society for outstanding contributions to the field of computer and digital systems architecture.

Nomination Deadline:

1 March 2026

Nominate

This award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements.

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2025 Eckert-Mauchly nominations are under review.

2025 Eckert-Mauchly Subcommittee Chair

Prof. Lizy Kurian John, University of Texas at Austin

Past Recipients

2024 Wen-Mei W. Hwu: For seminal contributions to architectures, compilers, and adoption of multiple generations of processors, including superscalar, VLIW, and GPUs.
2023 Kunle Olukotun: For contributions and leadership in the development of parallel systems, especially multicore and multithreaded processors.
2022 Mark Horowitz: For contributions to microprocessor memory systems.
2021 Margaret Martonosi: For contributions to the design, modeling, and verification of power-efficient computer architecture.
2020 Luiz A. Barroso: For pioneering the design of warehouse-scale computing and driving it from concept to industry.
2019 Mark D. Hill: For contributions to the design and evaluation of memory systems and parallel computers.
2018 Susan Eggers: For outstanding contributions to simultaneous multithreaded processor architectures and multiprocessor sharing and coherency.
2017 Charles P. Thacker
2016 Uri Weiser: For leadership and pioneering industry and academic work in high performance processors and multimedia architectures.
2015 Norman P. Jouppi: For pioneering contributions to the design and analysis of high-performance processors and memory systems.
2014 Trevor Mudge: For pioneering contributions to low power computer architecture and its interaction with technology.
2013 James R. Goodman: For pioneering contributions to the architecture of shared-memory multiprocessors.
2012 Algirdas Avizienis: For fundamental contributions to fault-tolerant computer architecture and computer arithmetic.
2011 Gurindar (Guri) S. Sohi: For pioneering widely used micro-architectural techniques for instruction-level parallelism.
2010 William J. Dally: For outstanding contributions to the architecture of interconnection networks and parallel computers.
2009 Joel S. Emer: For pioneering contributions to performance analysis and modeling methodologies; for design innovations in several significant industry microprocessors; and for deftly bridging research and development, academia and industry.
2008 David A. Patterson: For seminal contributions to RISC microprocessor architectures, RAID storage systems design, and reliable computing, and for leadership in education and in disseminating academic research results into successful industrial products.
2007 Mateo Valero: For extraordinary leadership in building a world class computer architecture research center, for seminal contributions in the areas of vector computing and multithreading, and for pioneering basic new approaches to instruction-level parallelism.
2006 James H. Pomerene: For pioneering innovations in computer architecture, including early concepts in cache, reliable memories, pipelining and branch prediction, for the design of the IAS computer and for the design of the Harvest supercomputer.
2005 Robert P. Colwell: For outstanding achievements in the design and implementation of industry-changing micro-architectures, and for significant contributions to the RISC/CISC architecture debate.
2004 Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.: 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.
2003 Joseph A. (Josh) Fisher: 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.
2002 B. Ramakrishna (Bob) Rau: For pioneering contributions to statically-scheduled instruction-level parallel processors and their compilers.
2001 John L. Hennessy: For being the founder and chief architect of the MIPS Computer Systems and contributing to the development of the landmark MIPS R2000 microprocessor.
2000 Edward S. Davidson: For seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance pipelines and multiprocessor systems.
1999 James E. Smith: For fundamental contributions to high performance micro-architecture, including saturating counters for branch prediction, reorder buffers for precise exceptions, decoupled access/execute architectures, and vector supercomputer organization memory, and interconnects.
1998 Tadashi Watanabe: For contributions to the architectural design of supercomputers with multiple/parallel vector pipelines and programmable vector caches.
1997 Robert Tomasulo: For the ingenious Tomasulo's algorithm, which enabled out-of-order execution processors to be implemented.
1996 Yale N. Patt: For important contributions to instruction level parallelism and superscalar processor design.
1995 John H. Crawford: In recognition of your impact on the computer industry through your development of microprocessor technology.
1994 James E. Thornton: For his pioneering work on high performance processors; for inventing the scoreboard for instruction issue; and for fundamental contributions to vector supercomputing.
1993 David Kuck: For his impact on the field of supercomputing, including his work in shared memory multiprocessing, clustered memory hierarchies, compiler technology, and application/library tuning.
1992 Michael J. Flynn: For his important and seminal contributions to processor organization and classification, computer arithmetic and performance evaluation.
1991 Burton Smith: For pioneering work in the design and implementation of scalable shared memory multiprocessors.
1990 Kenneth Batcher: For contributions to parallel computer architecture, both for pioneering theories in interconnection networks and for the pioneering implementations of parallel computers.
1989 Seymour Cray: For a career of achievements that have advanced supercomputer design.
1988 Daniel P. Siewiorek: For outstanding contributions in parallel computer architecture, reliability, and computer architecture education.
1987 Gene M. Amdahl: For outstanding innovations in computer architecture, including pipelining, instruction look- ahead and cache memory.
1986 Harvey G. Cragon: 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.
1985 John Cocke: For contributions to high performance computer architecture through look ahead, parallelism and pipeline utilization, and to reduced instruction set computer architecture through the exploitation of hardware-software tradeoffs and compiler optimization.
1984 Jack B. Dennis
1983 Tom Kilburn
1982 C. Gordon Bell
1981 Wesley A. Clark
1980 Maurice V. Wilkes
1979 Robert S. Barton