«For major contributions to computer architecture over three decades including notable achievements in developing a working stored-program computer, formulation of the basic principles of microprogramming, early research on cache memories, and recent studies in distributed computation.»
«For contributions to the early development of the minicomputer and the multiprocessor, and for continued contributions over 25 years that have found their way into computer networks, modular computers, and personal computers.»
«For his contributions to designing and understanding computer systems: for his contributions in the formation of the minicomputer; for the creation of the first commercial, interactive timesharing computer; for pioneering work in the field of hardware description languages; for co-authoring classic computer books and co-founding a computer museum.»
«For major seminal contributions to computer architecture spanning a period of three decades. For establishing a tradition of collaboration between university and industry which demands the mutual understanding of electronics technology and abstract programming concepts.»
«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.»
«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.»
«For contributions to parallel computer architecture, both for pioneering theories in interconnection networks and for the pioneering implementations of parallel computers.»
«For his impact on the field of supercomputing, including his work in shared memory multiprocessing, clustered memory hierarchies, compiler technology, and application/library tuning.»
«For his pioneering work on high performance processors; for inventing the "scoreboard" for instruction issue; and for fundamental contributions to vector supercomputing.»
«For fundamental contributions to high performance microarchitecture, including saturating counters for branch prediction, reorder buffers for precise exceptions, decoupled access/execute architectures, and vector supercomputer organization, memory, and interconnects.»
«For being the founder and chief architect of the MIPS Computer Systems and contributing to the development of the landmark MIPS R2000 microprocessor.»
«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.»
«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.»
«For outstanding achievements in the design and implementation of industry-changing microarchitectures, and for significant contributions to the RISC/CISC architecture debate.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«For pioneering contributions to the design and development of personal computer architecture including the Xerox Alto, the first tablet computers, and cache coherence protocols.»