James E. Smith (engineer)

James E. Smith is a computer engineer and an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[1]

Smith was awarded the 1999 Eckert–Mauchly Award "for fundamental contributions to high performance micro-architecture, including saturating counters for branch prediction, reorder buffers for precise exceptions, decoupled access/execute architectures, and vector supercomputer organization memory, and interconnects." ^[2]

References

1. ↑ http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/faculty/smith_james.html
2. ↑ http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/eckert