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A research paper by Dr. Yale N. Patt, professor of electrical and computer engineering, holder of the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering, and his former student Dr. Tse-Yu Yeh, an associate research scientist in the HPS Research Group and currently the Chief Architect of Palo Alto Semiconductor, won the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2007 Most Influential Paper of the Year Award. The paper, entitled "Alternative Implementations of Two-Level Adaptive Branch Prediction," published in ISCA in1992 was selected as having had the most impact on the field (in terms of research, development, products or ideas) during the 15 years since it was published.