Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award

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The Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award, also known as the Seymour Cray Award, is an award given to recognize significant and innovative contributions in the field of high-performance computing. The award honors scientists who exhibit the creativity demonstrated by Seymour Cray, founder of Cray, Inc. and an early pioneer of supercomputing. The winner receives a crystal memento, certificate, and US$10,000.

[edit] Recipients

Ken Batcher, 2007. "For fundamental theoretical and practical contributions to massively parallel computation, including parallel sorting algorithms, interconnection networks, and pioneering designs of the STARAN and MPP computers."
Tadashi Watanabe, 2006. "For serving as lead designer of the NEC SX series of supercomputers, and especially for the design of the Earth Simulator, which was the world's fastest supercomputer from 2002 to 2004."
Steven L. Scott, 2005. "For advancing supercomputer architecture through the development of the Cray T3E, the Cray X1 and the Cray Black Widow".
William J. Dally, 2004. "For fundamental contributions to the design and engineering of high-performance interconnection networks, parallel computer architectures, and high-speed signaling technology."
Burton J. Smith, 2003. "For ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing and especially for sustained championing of the use of multithreading to enable parallel execution and overcome latency and to achieve high performance in industrially significant products."
Monty Denneau, 2002. "For ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing leading to widely used industrial products."
John L. Hennessy, 2001. "For pioneering contributions to the foundation, teaching, and practice of high performance computing, especially in distributed shared memory multiprocessor architectures and in design and application of reduced instruction set architectures."
Glen J. Culler. 2000. "For pioneering contributions to the foundation and practice of high performance computing in array and very long instruction word (VLIW) processing especially for use in interactive scientific exploration."
John Cocke, 1999. "For unique and creative contributions to the computer industry through innovative high performance system designs."