A Common Standard to Fix Our Review Process (and oh, I was wrong about one thing)
We need a rubric for reviews to ensure our review process is fair.
The new life of SmartNICs
Programmable network controllers, SmartNICs, are an old concept, yet today they are seeing renewed interest and growing adoption in data centers and HPC systems. This blog post discusses the trends in modern computer networks that drive the dramatic increase of...
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,...
