Alan J. Smith
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Research Areas
Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC)Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
Computer System Performance Analysis, I/O Systems, CacheMemories, Memory Systems
Biography
He received his S. B. from MIT and a Ph.D. Stanford University.Awards/Honors/Lectureships:Harry Goode Award of the IEEE Computer Society, 2006, for outstanding contribution to the information processing field, citation reads: "For leadership in the measurement and evaluation of cache and memory system performance."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."
A. A. Michelson Award of the Computer Measurement Group (CMG), 2003.
The award is given as a lifetime achievement award for making significant, lasting contributions to the field of computer measurement and performance.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001.
Fellow of the ACM, 2000.
Fellow, IEEE, 1988.
Selected Publications
W. W. Hsu, A. J. Smith, and H. C. Young, "The automatic improvement of locality in storage systems," ACM Trans. Computer Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 424-423, Nov. 2005.J. R. Lorch and A. J. Smith, "PACE: A new approach to dynamic voltage scaling," IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 856-869, July 2004.
W. W. S. Hsu and A. J. Smith, "The performance effect of I/O optimizations and disk improvements," IBM J. Research and Development, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 255-289, March 2004.
N. T. Slingerland and A. J. Smith, "Measuring the performance of multimedia instruction sets," IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1317-1332, Nov. 2002.
W. W. S. Hsu and A. J. Smith, "I/O reference behavior of production database workloads and the TPC benchmarks -- An analysis at the logical level," ACM Trans. Database Systems, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 96-143, March 2001.
J. R. Lorch and A. J. Smith, "Scheduling techniques for reducing processor energy use in MacOS," Wireless Networks, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 311-324, Oct. 1997.
R. H. Saavedra and A. J. Smith, "Analysis of benchmark characteristics and benchmark performance prediction," ACM Trans. Computer Systems, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 344-384, Nov. 1996.
R. H. Saavedra and A. J. Smith, "Performance characterization of optimizing compilers," IEEE Trans. Software Engineering, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 615-628, July 1995.
A. J. Smith, "The task of the referee," IEEE Computer, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 65-71, April 1990.
P. Sweazey and A. J. Smith, "A class of compatible cache consistency protocols and their support by the IEEE Futurebus," ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 414-423, June 1986.
A. J. Smith, "Disk cache -- Miss ratio analysis and design considerations," ACM Trans. Computer Systems, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 161-203, Aug. 1985.
J. F. K. Lee and A. J. Smith, "Branch prediction strategies and branch target buffer design," IEEE Computer, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 6-22, Jan. 1984.
A. J. Smith, "Cache memories," ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 473-530, Sep. 1982.
A. J. Smith, "Long term file migration: Development and evaluation of algorithms," Communications of the ACM, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 521-532, Aug. 1981.
A. J. Smith, "An analytic and experimental study of multiple channel controllers," IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. C-27, no. 1, pp. 38-49, Jan. 1979.
A. J. Smith, "Sequentiality and prefetching in database systems," ACM Trans. Database Systems, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 223-247, Sep. 1978.
A. J. Smith, "A modified working set paging algorithm," IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. C-25, no. 9, pp. 907-914, Sep. 1976.
F. Baskett and A. J. Smith, "Interference in multiprocessor computer systems with interleaved memory," Communications of the ACM, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 327-334, June 1976.
Awards, Memberships and Fellowships
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2008IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award, 2008
CS Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, 2006
A. A. Michelson Award, 2003
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2001
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 1989