Thoughts on Winning the 2014

......I’d like to thank Erik Altman and Lieven Eeckhout for the opportunity to summarize some of the remarks I made in my Eckert–Mauchly Award acceptance speech at the 41st International Symposium of Computer Architecture in June 2014. I am very honored to have received the Eckert–Mauchly award, but, as many of you know, I have supervised 50 PhD students, and it would be improbable if I didn’t acknowledge their large contribution to work that sometimes gets attributed to me. My principal hope is that I have played the role of constructive critic so that their work has been improved or, better, has taken a novel turn that perhaps they didn’t foresee. As you may have guessed, the aspect of academia, and research in academia in particular, that I most enjoy is the opportunity to work with graduate students on research problems.