NEW YORK, July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) presented the Eckert-Mauchly Award to James H. Pomerene for his pioneering innovations in computer architecture. Pomerene was chief engineer of the project known as the IAS machine, the first electronic digital computer built by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J, in the early 1950s. He joined IBM in 1956, and began work on what became the first supercomputer. The 2006 Eckert-Mauchly Award, known as the most prestigious award in the computer architecture community, and its $5,000 prize, were presented to Pomerene at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture held June 17-22, in Boston, Mass.
Pomerene was cited for his early concepts in cache, reliable memories, pipelining and branch prediction. He was instrumental in the design of IBM's Harvest supercomputer, which went on line in 1962. Harvest incorporated a super high-speed memory and high-speed tape drives beyond anything previously in existence. In 1965, he headed an IBM team charged with preliminary design of the Parallel Network Digital Computer (PNDC), an early parallel machine. Work on this project led to Pomerene's contribution to highly available memory systems.
Pomerene authored or co-authored numerous technical papers, and holds singly and jointly 17 patents. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he received the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award in 1968, the IEEE Computer Society's Pioneer Award in 1986, and the IEEE Edison Medal in 1993. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1942.
ACM and IEEE CS jointly presents the Eckert-Mauchly Award, which was initiated in 1989, and is given for contributions to computer and digital systems architecture. It was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing machine, known as ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, in 1947.
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