Alan Jay Smith

Short description: American computer scientist

Dr. Alan Jay Smith (born April, 1949) 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 emeritus 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"[1]
* 2003: A. A. Michelson Award by the Computer Measurement Group[2]
* 2006: Harry H. Goode Memorial Award by the IEEE Computer Society for "leadership in the measurement and evaluation of cache and memory system performance"[3]
* 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"[4]

## References

1. ↑ "ACM Fellows Award". Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071214201906/http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1240373&srt=all. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
2. ↑ "Michelson Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20080420165115/http://www.cmg.org/national/michelson-awards.html. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
3. ↑ "Past recipients for Harry H. Goode Memorial Award". http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/viewPastRecipients.action?id=17. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
4. ↑ "6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)". Archived from the original on 24 January 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080124155238/http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/ieee_award.html. Retrieved 2008-01-20.

## External links

* "Homepage at the EECS of the University of California, Berkeley". Archived from the original on 2008-01-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20080117111921/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/People/Faculty/Homepages/smith.shtml. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
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