SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award

Nominations for the 2001 ACM/SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award are due March 1, 2001.

Nominators should submit a 1 to 2 pages description of why their candidate is worthy of the Wilkes Award including (if possible) a URL pointing to the home page of the candidate. Letter of support are allowed, but not required.

The nominator should ensure that the candidate is eligible for the award (must have started graduate school in computer science and engineering NO EARLIER than 1981 or, if the candidate does not have an advanced degree in computer science and engineering, must have begun working in the computer field no earlier than 1981).

Nominations should be submitted (electronically) to a member of the Awards Committee:

• Jim Goodman (chair) - goodman@cs.wisc.edu
• Mary Jane Irwin - mji@cse.psu.edu
• Wen-Mei Hwu - hwu@crhc.uiuc.edu

The recipient will be selected based on

• "Outstanding contributions to computer architecture made by an individual whose computer-related professional career (graduate school or full-time employment) began no earlier than 20 years prior to the time of nomination."

Previous recipients:

• 1998 - Wen-Mei Hwu
• 1999 - Guri Sohi
• 2000 - William J. Dally

The recipient of the Maurice Wilkes Award will receive a $2,500 prize and will be invited to accept the award at ISCA'2000 in Goteborg, Sweden.