André Seznec Receives ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
June 17, 2025
ACM and the IEEE Computer Society have announced that André Seznec is the recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award. Seznec, a Fellow Research Director at INRIA/IRISA and a Fellow at SiFive, is recognized for his extensive impact on computing, most notably pioneering contributions to branch prediction and cache memories. His inventions can be found in billions of CPUs worldwide including the TAGE branch predictor and skewed-associative cache. Seznec’s work has served as a gold standard of branch prediction for the last 15 years, with most current structures in industrial designs rooted in his trailblazing contributions.
He will be formally recognized with the Eckert-Mauchly Award on Tuesday, June 24 at 10:30 am JST at ISCA 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.
The Eckert-Mauchly Award is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. It is co-sponsored by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society and comes with a $5,000 prize.
