Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing Replacing Good Design?
Emerging cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have reached market capitalizations in the billions of U.S. dollars and transactions volumes in the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars per day according to coinmarketcap.com. The underlying technology of...
Memory that never forgets
Memory architecture is a key component of modern computer systems. Memory hierarchy importance increases with the advances in microprocessor performance. Traditional memory hierarchy design consists of embedded memory (such as SRAM and embedded DRAM) for on-chip...
MICRO-50 Summary
The 50th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture was held earlier this week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Day One PC Chairs Joel Emer and Daniel Sanchez kicked things off by sharing some data on conference submissions and reviewing. MICRO-50 used a...
SIGARCH Works to Improve Diversity
I was proud to work with Margaret and many collaborators over a rollercoaster last few days to help enable the now famous diversity statement at MICRO-50. As a woman, this issue touches my life intimately, and as SIGARCH chair, I strive to use the platform entrusted...
Statement on Diversity at MICRO-50
Several of us reached a “flashpoint” after reading a SIGARCH blog post about gender diversity and then seeing aspects of the MICRO-50 conference program including an all-white-male panel entitled “Legends of MICRO.” We felt we needed to take public, visible action to...
Offensive Security Research in Computer Architecture Conferences
We rarely see attack papers published in architecture conferences. What is the benefit of publishing attacks? What makes an attack paper instructive and valuable?
The Road to Success In Industry
In academia, your teachers/advisor lays out well defined goals: Get an A in the class to prove your knowledge of the material; Publish in top tier conferences or journals to prove your research capabilities. Finish all the required classes and/or publish the requisite...
Gender Diversity in Computer Architecture
Part One: We’re Just Going to Leave This Here TL;DR – In part one of our series on gender diversity within the subdiscipline of computer architecture, we present some data that provides signal on where our community stands today with respect to gender diversity....
Remembering Nathan Binkert
It is with great regret that I pass on the news that our colleague and friend Nathan Binkert is no longer with us. Nate passed away unexpectedly on September 21st after collapsing at the gym. Nate was a computer scientist of remarkable breadth, equally at home...Subscribe
