Archive of posts tagged: Conference
Virtual Conferences are Not the Solution (in the Long-Term)
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of conferences, including ASPLOS, DATE and ICLR, have abandoned their planned in-person gatherings and, instead, transitioned to virtual symposia. While painful, these are correct and responsible decisions given the...
Our Conferences and Climate Change
We need to act on climate change now. With global emissions continuing to rise at an alarming rate there is an urgent need to adopt measures to reduce emissions. The UN calls climate change “the defining issue of our times”. It is imperative that we, the...
HPCA 2020 Trip Report
By all accounts, HPCA (and co-located PPoPP/CGO) was a tremendous success with fabulous keynotes, many ground-breaking papers and an almost too-wonderful setting in sunny San Diego. Keynotes The first day was started by a keynote from Josep Torellas from UIUC, who...
Time to Eliminate In-Person PC meetings?
[Editors’ note: This is the first in a series of upcoming posts on conferences and travel.] It’s time to end the in-person PC meeting. On many fronts it no longer makes sense for 60+ people to travel to one location to each discuss a handful of papers. There...Subscribe
