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Best Young Computer Professional Honored New York, March 30, 2004 -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized Dr. Stephen W. Keckler of the University of Texas at Austin with the Grace Murray Hopper Award for his groundbreaking analysis of technology scaling for high-performance processors. Dr. Keckler led his research group, known as TRIPS (Tera-Op Reliable Intelligently adaptive Processing System) in developing an architecture that offers a promising path to scalability without significantly reducing the number of applications that customers can run on their PC's. Dr. Keckler will receive the Hopper Award, which is given to the outstanding young computer professional of the year and carries a $5,000 prize. Dr. Keckler completed the science as well as the design and engineering required to build a microprocessor, demonstrating the behavior of wires in future technology and the scaling limits of microprocessors. His work identified the distribution of structures as the key issues to be addressed in future designs. It also shed new light on the methods required to maintain performance improvement trends in computer architecture, and on the design implications for future high-performance processors and systems. Dr. Keckler's seminal work, "Clock Rate Versus IPC," predicted the end of the road for conventional microarchitectures. The paper, which identifies wire delay as a key problem to be faced by future computer designers, is one of the most highly referenced computer architecture papers in recent times. A second paper, "Exploiting ILP, DLP, and TLP Using Polymorphism in the TRIPS Processor," describes instruction-level, data-level and thread-level parallelism. It addresses grain size in microprocessor architectures and the ability of microprocessors to run applications with different types of parallelism Dr. Keckler earned his BS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and went on to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received SM and PhD degrees in Computer Science. He is assistant professor of Computer Sciences and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. A Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, Dr. Keckler is a member of the Austin Yacht Club and races sail boats in the Snipe Class International Association and the North American Laser Class Association. ACM will present the Hopper Award to Dr. Keckler at its annual ACM Awards Banquet June 5, at the Plaza Hotel, New York, NY. The Grace Murray Hopper Award honors the outstanding young computer professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the qualifying contribution was made. About ACM ACM (www.acm.org) is widely recognized as the premier organization for computing professionals, delivering a broad array of resources that advance the computing and IT disciplines, enable professional development, and promote policies and research that benefit society. |
