John Cocke
for significant contributions in the design and theory of compilers, the architecture of large systems and the development of reduced instruction set computers (RISC); for discovering and systematizing many fundamental transformations now used in optimizing compilers including reduction of operator strength, elimination of common subexpressions, register allocation, constant propagation, and dead code elimination
Affiliated at time of winning
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, United States