Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing Replacing Good Design?

Emerging cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have reached market capitalizations in the billions of U.S. dollars and transactions volumes in the hundreds of millions of U.S....

Memory that never forgets

Memory architecture is a key component of modern computer systems. Memory hierarchy importance increases with the advances in microprocessor performance. Traditional memory hierarchy...

MICRO-50 Summary

The 50th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture was held earlier this week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Day One PC Chairs Joel Emer and Daniel Sanchez kicked things off by...

SIGARCH Works to Improve Diversity

I was proud to work with Margaret and many collaborators over a rollercoaster last few days to help enable the now famous diversity statement at MICRO-50. As a woman, this issue touches my...

Statement on Diversity at MICRO-50

Several of us reached a “flashpoint” after  reading a SIGARCH blog post about gender diversity and then seeing aspects of the MICRO-50 conference program including an all-white-male panel...

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Announcements

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Calls for Contributions

Calls for papers, tutorials, workshops, presentations and other technical contributions.

June 2, 2018 in Los Angeles
Call for Workshops/Tutorials: ISCA 2018
February 24, 2018 in Vienna, Austria
Call for Papers: CC 2018
April 3, 2018 in Belfast, Ireland
Call for Papers: ISPASS 2018
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Calls for Participation

Information on registering and attending conferences, workshops and other events.
 

November 5, 2017 in Boston Area, USA
ICCD 2017
October 19, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea
NOCS 2017
October 1, 2017 in Seattle
IISWC 2017
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