2008 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award
Sponsored by the IBM Almaden Research Center
Presentation: Wednesday, February 27, 8:30 a.m.9:00 a.m., during the Opening Remarks and Awards, by Lewis Terman, 2008 IEEE President
2008 Recipient: Alan Jay Smith, Professor, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
2008 Award Citation: "For contributions to the performance analysis of computer storage systems, including improvements to disk caches,
prefetching and data placement"
During his 34-year professional career, Alan Jay Smith has
established himself as an authority in the field of storage system
performance evaluation through his work on algorithms for managing the
placement, movement, and caching of data in and between levels of the
memory hierarchy. His work has improved the ability of input/output
devices and storage and memory systems to better keep up with rapidly
increasing processor and circuit speeds. His work has included studies
of disk caching, file migration, device interconnect, block and file
placement, performance analysis methodology, and workload analysis and
survey papers.