I received the W. J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award for 2008. I would like to thank the Computer Science Department at UIUC for this honor. Here are a few details about the award, from the CS awards website:

Established by family, friends, former students, and colleagues upon Professor W. J. Poppelbaum's death in 1993. He came to Illinois in 1954 and joined the solid state research group under Professor John Bardeen, working on an electrolytic analog of a junction transistor. He joined the Digital Computer Laboratory a year later, in charge of circuit research. Poppelbaum was on the faculty from 1955-89 and developed the basic circuits of ILLIAC II.

This award is for graduate students in computer hardware or architecture, based on academic merit and creativity.