by Stephen M Blackburn, Kathryn S McKinley and Lexing Xie on Sep 9, 2019 | Tags: Academia, Conference, Publications
Graduate student growth continues to outpace faculty growth in computer science. Because producing successful graduate students requires publishing with them, each faculty member should be publishing more, but they are not. If research quality has dropped over time, as some perceive, the reason in not an increase in per-author output.
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by Omer Anjum, Wen-Mei Hwu, Jinjun Xiong on Aug 2, 2019 | Tags: Conference, ISCA, publication trends
Recently, we conducted a detailed study of some notable publication trends at ISCA. We used the abstracts for all the papers published at ISCA from 1973, when it was inaugurated, to 2018. This blog summarizes the main findings of the detailed article which can be...
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by Yuhao Zhu on Jul 11, 2019 | Tags: Conference, ISCA
Every four years, various research conferences spanning different areas of Computer Science are co-located together into a week-long coordinated meeting, Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC), held in a common place. In 2019, the common place is Phoenix,...
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by T. N. Vijaykumar on Jun 6, 2019 | Tags: Conference, Opinion
We would find it unacceptable for grading in a college-level course to be done by multiple TAs without any rubric or common guidelines. Why is it acceptable for our career-affecting review process?
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by Nathan Beckmann on May 20, 2019 | Tags: Conference
Researchers in programming languages, operating systems, and computer architecture converged on Providence, RI this April for the 24th edition of ASPLOS. This year’s ASPLOS showed the strength of computer systems research in many areas, from cloud computing to...
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