by Dmitry Ponomarev on Jun 9, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Security
In an earlier blog post, we argued that computer architects working on security problems should follow security conferences. In this post, we highlight some of the recent results from this year’s events that may be of interest to our community. While security...
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by Elba Garza on Jun 4, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Diversity, People
There is a joke that says torture is attending a party where you don’t know anyone present. Now, that sentiment may be hyperbolic, but it has an element of truth — as an undergraduate student attending my first computer architecture conference, I absolutely felt...
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by Mark D. Hill on May 26, 2020 | Tags: Computer Architecture, Policy, Visioning
TL;DR: This post reviews some successful visioning in computer architecture and related fields. It argues why visioning is necessary for our field to flourish and discusses how the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has facilitated some of this. Visioning is...
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by Timothy Roscoe on May 21, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Conference, Mentoring, Opinion, Policy, Systems, Travel, Virtual Meetings
I attended Eurosys 2020 last week. It was due to be held in Heraklion, in Crete, and due to travel conflicts I was not planning to attend. However, since all my travel has been cancelled, and Switzerland was in its 7th week of lockdown, and Eurosys went entirely...
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by Jae W. Lee on May 18, 2020 | Tags: People
Sang Lyul Min, a Professor of CSE at Seoul National University (SNU), passed away on February 24th after bravely fighting pancreatic cancer for over two years. He was a general co-chair of ISCA 2016 held in Seoul, South Korea, and subsequently served on the steering...
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by Minsoo Rhu on May 14, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning
To meet machine learning (ML) practitioners’ insatiable demand for higher processing power, computer architects have been at the forefront of developing accelerated computing solutions for ML that fundamentally changed the landscape of the computing industry. Given...
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