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Eckert-Mauchly Award
CONTACT: Virginia Gold
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HP Scientist Impacted Computer Science and Industry New York, June 2, 2003 -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) will jointly present the Eckert-Mauchly Award to Joseph A. (Josh) Fisher of HP Labs, HP's central research facility, for his contributions to instruction-level processors (ILP) and compilers that use a style of architecture called VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word). Fisher's pioneering research on VLIW, which enables faster processing, and his work on ILP and custom-fit processors, which has found wide use in digital video consumer products, have had a lasting impact on much of computer architecture. Fisher will receive the Eckert-Mauchly Award, known as the most prestigious award in the computer architecture community, and its $5000 prize, at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, in San Diego, CA June 10, 2003. VLIW is a CPU architectural style in which a group of instructions is read and then executed together. In 1984, Fisher co-founded Multiflow Computer, Inc., which built VLIW mini-supercomputers. The early technical and commercial success of this startup company changed industry perceptions of the practicality of VLIW architectures. HP and Intel used Multiflow's technology as a key tool in designing the Itanium family of 64-bit processors. While a graduate student at New York University's Courant Institute, Fisher developed a radically new compiler technique called Trace Scheduling. As a Yale University computer science professor, he developed many of the basic technologies of compiler-controlled ILP, and laid out his vision of the future of ILP, coining the terms VLIW and ILP. Fisher joined HP in 1990, and founded HP Labs Cambridge in 1994, serving as its director for eight years. Fisher is a Senior HP Fellow and a senior member of IEEE. In 1987, he won the Eli Whitney Connecticut Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He was awarded a National Science Foundation 1984 Presidential Young Investigator Award. Fisher earned his BA in mathematics from New York University and his MS and PhD in computer science from NYU's Courant Institute. ACM and IEEE CS will jointly present the Eckert-Mauchly Award, which was initiated in 1989, and is given for contributions to computer and digital systems architecture. It was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing machine, known as ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, in 1947. About ACM The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students. ACM serves its global membership by delivering cutting edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. ACM hosts the computing industry's leading Portal to Computing Literature. With its world-class journals and magazines, dynamic special interest groups, numerous conferences, workshops and electronic forums, ACM is a primary resource for the information technology field. For additional information about ACM, visit our web site at www.acm.org. About IEEE CS The IEEE Computer Society (www.computer.org) is the world's largest association of computer professionals, and the largest constituent society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The Computer Society publishes 20 periodicals, releases more than 100 books per year, and annually sponsors more than 100 conferences throughout the world. |
