Archive of posts tagged: Virtual Meetings
The ASPLOS 2020 Online Conference Experience
This article originally appeared on the CACM blog. ASPLOS, the ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, is an annual, ACM-sponsored conference that brings together roughly 300-350 researchers and students from the...
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...
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
