Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• André Seznec has received the first Intel Research Impact Medal for "His exemplary work on high-performance computer micro-architectures, branch prediction, and cache architecture, have been of tremendous benefit to Intel, the industry, and the academic community as a whole.". (See http://www.intel.es/content/www/us/en/education/university/university-research-award.html ).

• André Seznec has been elevated as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to design of branch predictors and cache memory for processor architectures".