UNC’s Professor Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., who coined the term “Computer Architecture”, received the 2005 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Eckert-Mauchly Award for outstanding contributions to the field of computer and digital systems architecture. In his award acceptance speech, Dr. Brooks stated that GPUs are “…very powerful scientific computers installed in many homes… I think exploring that design space and its utilization… is one of the most exciting areas in computer architecture today.” (Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. 2005 Eckert-Mauchly Award acceptance speech. Streaming Video Links)