External Awards
- ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2006.
- Thin Locks selected as one of the Most Influential Papers in the first 20 years of the Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2003.
IBM Awards
- Inducted into the IBM Academy of Technology, October 2007.
- Gerstner Award for Client Excellence, AT+T Integrated Account Team (for role of real-time garbage collection in $750M contract), 2007.
- Corporate Award for Real-time Garbage Collection, 2006.
- Technical Group Award for TuningFork visualization system, 2006.
- Technical Group Award for Expedited Real-time Threads, 2006.
- Research Division Accomplishment for Real-time Garbage Collection and IBM's entry into the Real-time Market, including a $150M contract from Raytheon IDS, 2005.
- Outstanding Innovation Award for Real-time and Embedded Garbage Collection (Metronome), 2005.
- Fifth Invention Plateau Award, 2005.
- Fourth Invention Plateau Award, 2004.
- Third Invention Plateau Award, 2004.
- Technical Group Award for the High Productivity Computing System (DARPA PERCS Supercomputer), 2004.
- Second Invention Plateau Award, 2002.
- Technical Group Award for the Jikes Research Virtual Machine, 2002.
- First Invention Plateau Award, 1999.
- Research Division Award for High Performance Monitors for Java, 1998.
- Resident Study Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1990-1994.
- Research Division Award for Public Domain Software, 1988.