by Fred Chong, Ken Brown, Yongshan Ding on Jan 15, 2019 | Tags: Quantum Computing
In a recent IEEE Spectrum article, Mikhail Dyakonov makes The Case Against Quantum Computing, focusing on the idea that building a quantum computer would require precise control over 2300 continuous variables. This view is absolutely correct if we were building an...
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by Alvin Lebeck on Jan 7, 2019 | Once again the new year is upon us and it’s time to look back on 2018 and to look ahead for 2019. It was another great year for Computer Architecture Today with 59 posts, for a total of 103 published posts from 37 contributors that generated over 170,000 views...
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by Keshav Pingali on Dec 20, 2018 | Tags: circuit design tools, EDA 3.0, Graph algorithms, Parallelism
In the past ten years, there has been a lot of progress in the design of programming models for parallel graph algorithms and their implementation on a variety of hardware platforms including multicore CPUs and GPUs. Vertex programs for graph analytics For the most...
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by Shaizeen Aga, Aasheesh Kolli on Dec 17, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, HPCA19, Mentoring, Networking, Workshop
“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could”. — Zig Ziglar, renowned motivational speaker Good mentoring can have an outsized impact on the careers of students, especially during early stages of...
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by Nilesh Jain, Omesh Tickoo, Ravi Iyer on Dec 6, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Machine Learning, Vision
The tremendous growth in visual computing is fueled by the rapid increase in deployment of visual sensing (e.g. cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. smart cameras & analytics) to interactive/immersive...
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by Steve Swanson on Nov 27, 2018 | Tags: Advice, Conference
Inspired by T. N. Vijaykumar’s recent (and excellent) guidance for program committee members, I wanted to share my thoughts about crafting papers to survive the reviewing process and (more important) in the real world. A research paper’s task is to convey...
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