James E. Smith (engineer)
Encyclopedia
James E. Smith is a computer engineer and an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Smith was awarded the 1999 Eckert–Mauchly Award "for fundamental contributions to high performance micro-architecture, including saturating counters for branch prediction, reorder buffers for precise exception
s, decoupled access/execute architectures, and vector supercomputer organization memory, and interconnects."
Smith was awarded the 1999 Eckert–Mauchly Award "for fundamental contributions to high performance micro-architecture, including saturating counters for branch prediction, reorder buffers for precise exception
Exception handling
Exception handling is a programming language construct or computer hardware mechanism designed to handle the occurrence of exceptions, special conditions that change the normal flow of program execution....
s, decoupled access/execute architectures, and vector supercomputer organization memory, and interconnects."