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Presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at the
PLDI held 10 years prior to the award year.
The award includes a prize of $1,000 to be split among the authors of the winning paper.
The papers are judged by their influence over the past decade. Recipients:
2007 (for 1997):
Exploiting Hardware
Performance Counters with Flow and Context Sensitive Profiling, Glenn
Ammons, Thomas Ball, and James R. Larus
2006 (for 1996):
TIL: A Type-Directed
Optimizing Compiler for ML, David Tarditi, Greg Morrisett, Perry Cheng,
Christopher Stone, Robert Harper, and Peter Lee
2005 (for 1995):
Selective
Specialization for Object-Oriented Languages, Jeffrey Dean, Craig Chambers,
and David Grove
2004 (for 1994):
ATOM: a system for
building customized program analysis tools,
Amitabh Srivastava
and Alan Eustace
2003 (for 1993):
Space
Efficient Conservative Garbage Collection,
Hans Boehm
2002 (for 1992):
Lazy Code Motion,
Jens Knoop,
Oliver
Rüthing, Bernhard Steffen.
2001 (for 1991):
A
data locality optimizing algorithm, Michael E. Wolf and
Monica S. Lam.
2000 (for 1990):
Profile
guided code positioning, Karl Pettis and Robert C. Hansen.
Selection Committee
The award given in year N is for the most
influential paper presented at the conference held in year N-10. The
selection committee consists of the following members:
- the current SIGPLAN Chair,
- the General Chair and Program Chair for PLDI N-10,
- the General Chair and Program Chair for PLDI N-1,
and
- a member of the SIGPLAN EC appointed by the PLDI
Chair.
The committee is chaired by the SIGPLAN Chair. The
SIGPLAN Chair shall adjudicate conflicts of interest, appointing substitutes to
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