Gordon Bell Prizes

The Gordon Bell Prizes are a set of awards that were established in 1987. Cash prizes accompany these recognitions and are funded by the award founder, Gordon Bell, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing. The prizes are awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery in conjuction with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. The main purpose of the award is to assess the progress over time of parallel computing in applications. An award is something given to a person or group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field. ... C. Gordon Bell (August 19, 1934) is a leading computer engineer and manager, an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) who designed several of their PDP machines and later rose to Vice President of Engineering and oversaw the development of the VAX. // Career Born in Kirksville, Missouri, he received... The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ... Not to be confused with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). ...

Prize categories

Depending on the entries received in a given year, prizes can be awarded in following categories:

Peak Performance: Awarded to the entry demonstrating the highest performance achieved in terms of operations per second on a genuine application program.

Price/Performance: Awarded to the entry demonstrating the best price-performance ratio as measured in megaflop/s per dollar on a genuine application.

Special: Awarded to the entry whose performance is short of that of the Peak Performance prize, which nevertheless utilizes innovative techniques to produce new levels of performance on a real application. Such techniques may be, for instance, in mathematical algorithms, data structures, or implementations.

List of recipients

• Award winners from 1987 to 1999

See also

• History of the Internet
• Philip Emeagwali

The history of the Internet dates back to the early development of communication networks. ... Philip Emeagwali (born 1954) is a Nigerian-born computer scientist, the first individual to win the Gordon Bell prize alone, with eight MIT scientists sharing one of the two prizes awarded in 1989. ...

External links

• Gordon Bell Prize Detailed description
• Short description of Gordon Bell Prize on ACM Website