Congratulations to Professor Mark Horowitz! He has been named the recipient of the 2022 ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award. He is recognized for contributions to microprocessor memory systems.

Mark was the first to identify the processor to dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) interface as a key bottleneck that required architecture and circuit optimization. He pioneered high-bandwidth DRAM interfaces. In addition, modern DRAM interfaces such as SDDR and LPDDR were strongly influenced by his techniques.

His deep insights at the intersection of architecture and circuits have profoundly influenced the field. He demonstrated the growing importance of wire delay in systems with large memories through his landmark paper, “The Future of Wires” in 2001. Mark has led research that recognizes that future performance/energy progress after the end of Dennard scaling will require greater use of hardware accelerators. He also pioneered work in Smart Memories, an early work customizing memory as well as processors; many of today’s domain-specific architectures build on this concept.

Please join us in congratulating Mark for this well-deserved award!

Excerpted from: "Stanford University Professor Receives the ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for Contributions to Microprocessor Memory Systems"