Ethical and Moral Fraying due to Intellectual Conflicts in Paper Reviews

Intellectually-conflicted reviews are an ethical and moral danger for the reviewers, result in repeated or permanent rejection of good papers, seriously hurt the careers of the authors, stymie progress in our field, but remain unrecognized by our review process.

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The Reviewer is Dead, Long Live the Review: Re-engineering Peer Review for the Age of AI

While the peer review process is the bedrock of modern science, it is notoriously slow, subjective, and inefficient. This blog post explores...

The Role of LLMs in Academic Reviewing

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ISCA 2025 Trip Report

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The Jevons Paradox: Why Efficiency Alone Won’t Solve Our Data Center Carbon Challenge

What Is Jevons Paradox? Jevons Paradox, first described by economist William Stanley Jevons in the 19th century, states that increasing the...

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