by Kathryn S. McKinley on Feb 28, 2018 | Tags: Diversity, Harassment
This blog post is a personal account of sexism, harassment, and racism that I and some anonymous members of the computer architecture community have experienced. We are sharing these experiences in part because of encouragement by male colleagues who found them...
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by Srilatha Manne on Feb 23, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Interdisciplinary, Opinion, Vision
Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. He observed that humans are not “rational’ creatures and that our behavior is impacted by how we react to the world. People have a myriad of biases that influence how we think...
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by Kathryn S. McKinley on Feb 19, 2018 | Tags: Conference, Diversity, Opinion
Inclusiveness is not limited to gender and race. The more our community can limit bias in all its aspects, the more inclusive our community will be, and the more people will want to join it and stay. All of us, our research, and society will benefit.
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by Mark Hill on Feb 15, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Security
As previously reported in the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog, two major hardware security design flaws—dubbed Meltdown and Spectre—were broadly revealed to the public in early January 2018. These flaws are described in detail by the discoverers in research...
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