IEEE Computer Society Announces Recipients of the 2025 IEEE CS Computer Pioneer Award in Honor of the Women of ENIAC

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 12 March 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (CS) today announced the recipients of the 2025 Computer Pioneer Award, which recognizes and honors those whose long-standing efforts have resulted in the advancement and continued vitality of the computer industry. This year, the “IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award in honor of the Women of ENIAC” recognized two individuals: Gurindar (Guri) Sohi, Vilas Research Professor, John P. Morgridge Professor, and E. David Cronon Professor of Computer Sciences, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis., U.S.A.; and Moshe Y. Vardi, University Professor and the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. Specifically, with the 2025 award, IEEE CS called out Sohi’s contributions to the microarchitecture of instruction-level parallel processors and his impact on the computer architecture community. His initial research efforts ... Read full article.