by Ghadeer Almusaddar and Yicheng Zhang on Sep 9, 2024 | Tags: Conferences, Security
33rd USENIX Security Symposium was held in Philadelphia in August 2024. Following recent trends, the symposium featured several sessions dedicated to hardware and microarchitectural security. The program includes papers targeting side-channels and covert channels...
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by Yuhao Zhu, Shuang Wu, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu on Sep 3, 2024 | Tags: autonomy, economies of scale
A version of this blog post will appear as an opinion article in CACM. Continued progress in the burgeoning field of robotics and autonomous machines depends critically on an efficient computing substrate. For very good reasons, the systems and architecture have...
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by Irene Wang on Aug 27, 2024 | Tags: Conference, Mentoring, uarch, Workshop
The 6th annual Undergraduate Architecture Mentoring (uArch) Workshop was co-located with the International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2024, hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As with the previous year, uArch was conducted in a hybrid format, combining...
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by Irene Y. Zhang on Aug 23, 2024 | Tags: Diversity, Harassment
Note: This is a republication of the blog post from the author’s website: https://irenezhang.net/news and the post from SIGOPS blog: https://www.sigops.org/2024/the-moral-implications-of-being-a-moderately-successful-computer-scientist-and-a-woman/ I recently...
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by Dan Sorin, Vijay Nagarajan, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Rajeev Balasubramonian on Aug 19, 2024 | Tags: Conference, Reviewing
Good news: The computer architecture community is growing! Submissions to major conferences have increased substantially in recent years, including just under 500 submissions to MICRO 2024. This growth reflects the vibrancy in our field, continued expansion of what...
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by Karu Sankaralingam on Aug 2, 2024 | Tags: Reviewing
Navigating the labyrinthine corridors of academic publishing, authors often encounter three formidable guardians, each with their unique, sometimes perplexing, approach to gatekeeping. These are the Confused Reviewer, the Rational Reviewer, and the Lazy Reviewer....
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by Carole Jean-Wu, Tamar Eilam, Babak Falsafi, Gage Hills, and Srilatha Manne on Aug 1, 2024 | Tags: Sustainable Computing
Digital technologies have enabled a plethora of new applications that have unlocked significant economic growth and improved the quality of many aspects of our lives. Despite the positive societal benefits, as computing becomes increasingly ubiquitous, so does its...
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by Jason Lowe-Power on Jul 26, 2024 | Tags: gem5, Simulators
It’s been almost 5 years since the last post on the SIGARCH blog about gem5. In that post, we talked about improving community outreach, providing a simpler interface to get started with gem5, and adding support for full machine learning stacks. I’m excited to say...
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by Friends, Colleagues, and Students of Arvind on Jul 24, 2024 | It is with a heavy heart that we write to share the news that on June 17th 2024, we lost our beloved colleague, mentor, and friend Arvind. Arvind passed away at 77 years old, after an illness he was being treated for took a sudden turn for the worse. Arvind...
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by Gururaj Saileshwar on Jul 19, 2024 | Tags: Conference
ISCA 2024 that recently concluded in Buenos Aires was a historic event. For the first time in its 50+ years of existence, ISCA was organized in Latin America. The conference organizers, led by general chairs (GCs) Augusto Vega and Esteban Mocskos, worked diligently to...
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