by Akshitha Sriraman on Oct 8, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Advice, Diversity, Interview, Mentoring
[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the SIGOPS blog and is re-posted here with permission.] With most systems and architecture conferences taking the online route, we figured it’s a great time to get to know a few people in the systems/architecture...
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by Akshitha Sriraman on Jul 17, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Advice, Diversity, Interview, Mentoring
[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the SIGOPS blog and is re-posted here with permission.] With most systems and architecture conferences taking the online route, we figured it’s a great time to get to know a few people in the...
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by David Patterson on Jul 15, 2020 | Tags: Academia, ACM SIGARCH, Conference, Industry, ISCA, Policy, Reviewing
Problem: The Disappearance of Product Papers from ISCA Industry research groups in computer architecture (like at IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA) have as much support for architectural exploration and publication as academic groups, but product groups certainly don’t. Few...
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by Elba Garza on Jun 4, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Diversity, People
There is a joke that says torture is attending a party where you don’t know anyone present. Now, that sentiment may be hyperbolic, but it has an element of truth — as an undergraduate student attending my first computer architecture conference, I absolutely felt...
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by Timothy Roscoe on May 21, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Conference, Mentoring, Opinion, Policy, Systems, Travel, Virtual Meetings
I attended Eurosys 2020 last week. It was due to be held in Heraklion, in Crete, and due to travel conflicts I was not planning to attend. However, since all my travel has been cancelled, and Switzerland was in its 7th week of lockdown, and Eurosys went entirely...
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