Alan Jay Smith

Dr. Alan Jay Smith is a computer scientist and researcher in the field of development and applications of caching strategies and the measurement and analysis of computer storage systems with many important contributions to the field. He currently is professor at the EECS faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.

Selected awards

* 1988: IEEE Fellow
* 2001: ACM Fellow for "his highly cited paper on cache memories, for his contributions to performance measurement, and for his leadership in professional society activities" [cite web |url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1240373&srt=all
title=ACM Fellows Award
accessdate=2008-01-20]
* 2003: A. A. Michelson Award by the Computer Measurement Group [cite web |url=http://www.cmg.org/national/michelson-awards.html
title=Michelson Award Winners
accessdate=2008-01-20]
* 2006: Harry H. Goode Memorial Award by the IEEE Computer Society for "leadership in the measurement and evaluation of cache and memory system performance" [cite web |url=http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewPastRecipients.action?id=17
title=Past recipients for Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
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* 2008: IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award for "contributions to the performance analysis of computer storage systems, including improvements to disk caches, prefetching and data placement" [cite web |url=http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/ieee_award.html
title=6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)
accessdate=2008-01-20]

References

External links

* cite web |url=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/People/Faculty/Homepages/smith.shtml
title=Homepage at the EECS of the University of California, Berkeley
accessdate=2008-01-20
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