Computing Community Consortium Blog

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Posts Tagged ‘ACMSIGARCH

 

John Hennessy and David Patterson Share ACM Turing Award

April 16th, 2018 / in CCC, research horizons, Research News, resources / by Helen Wright

The following is from the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today Blog by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill, the John P. Morgridge Professor and Gene M. Amdahl Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ACM recently announced that computer scientists John Hennessy and David Patterson have shared the 2017 ACM Turing Award with the official citation, “For pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.” The Turing Award is the highest award in computer science. It is given for “lasting and major technical importance to the computer field” and has been compared to a Nobel Prize, whose categories pre-date […]