John Hennessy and David Patterson Share ACM Turing Award
ACM recently announced that computer scientists John Hennessy and David Patterson have shared the 2017 ACM Turing Award. This blog post (a) gives a story–necessarily oversimplified–for how Hennessy & Patterson’s work fundamentally changed and accelerated computer architecture work and (b) includes Hennessy and Patterson’s Turing Lecture abstract.
Remembering Burton Smith
Burton Smith, a giant in the field of computer architecture, passed away on April 2, 2018. His friends and colleagues remember him both as a special intellect, whose work underlies much of the computing that we use today, and as a special person, whose warmth,...
ASPLOS 2018 Summary
Colonial Williamsburg is a “living museum.” Its pseudo-historical buildings mostly date the the 1930s, when history buffs imagined what the early settlement might have looked like and set their guesses into literal stone. The revivalists demolished hundreds of...
Cloud, Fog, Virtual Network Functions: Toward a Continuum of Computation and Communication
In this post, I argue that the traditional separation of computation and communication is not representative of the reality of current distributed systems. Instead, a more continuous perspective of computation and communication may be of value. This change requires...
Recognizing Great Work (New and Old) on Non-Volatile Memories
Earlier this month, the 9th annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop took place on the UC San Diego campus. This year, for the first time, the organizing committee created three awards to recognize some of the best work (new and old) in the field of non-volatile memory...
SIGMICRO and SIGARCH Join Hands on CARES
We are delighted to announce that SIGMICRO will join SIGARCH on the recently announced CARES program. CARES will now be a joint committee of SIGMICRO and SIGARCH. This is the first joint committee of the two organizations in recent times. We look forward to our two...
HPCA-24 Summary
An overview of the 24th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecure held in VIenna, Austria.
Reviewing System Security Papers
Works that describe defenses are often harder to publish than papers that demonstrate attacks. This blog post provides some insight on why this may be the case.
Quantum Computing is Getting Real
Quantum computing sits poised at the verge of a revolution. Quantum machines may soon be capable of performing calculations in chemistry, physics, and other fields that are extremely difficult or even impossible for today’s computers. Yet there is a significant gap...Subscribe
