Charles E. Leiserson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will receive the 2014 ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for his influence on parallel computing systems and their adoption into mainstream use through scholarly research and development. He was also cited for his mentoring of computer science leaders and students.  Leiserson introduced the notion of cache-oblivious algorithms, which can exploit the memory hierarchy near optimally despite having no tuning parameters for cache size or cache-line length. He also developed the Cilk multithreaded programming technology, and led the development of several Cilk-based parallel chess-playing programs, winning numerous prizes in international competition.  The award will be presented at SC14 on Tuesday, November 18, in New Orleans. To read further, please visit http://www.computer.org/portal/web/pressroom/IEEE-CS-and-ACM-Recognize-Charles-Leiserson-for-Advances-in-Parallel-Computing-Systems.