Nominations Sought for Highly Esteemed Eckert-Mauchly Award

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Feb 02, 2021, 14:16 ET

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Nominations are now being accepted for the Eckert-Mauchly Award, which recognizes high-impact achievements in computer and digital systems architecture. The Eckert-Mauchly Award, co-sponsored by ACM and IEEE Computer Society since 1979, is known as the computer architecture community's most prestigious award.

The nomination deadline is 30 March 2021.

Nominations Sought for Eckert-Mauchly Award

To make a nomination, visit https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/eckert-mauchly.

Nomination Guidelines:

Open to all. Anyone may nominate.
Self-nominations are not accepted.
This award requires 3 endorsements.

The award was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who collaborated on the design and construction of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the pioneering large-scale electronic computing machine, which was completed in 1947.

The award comes with a $5,000 prize and will be presented at the 48th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA2021) May 22–26, 2021 in Valencia, Spain. To register, visit iscaconf.org/isca2021/.

For the full list of past recipients, visit the awards page here.

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