by Rajeev Balasubramonian and Christina Delimitrou on Feb 3, 2022 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH, Blog
Another year in the books. Another year of dealing with the impact of Covid. Nearly everyone has been touched by the pandemic, and it’s worthwhile to remember this impact and be extra kind and understanding with our colleagues. While university campus life has...
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by Rajeev Balasubramonian and Christina Delimitrou on Feb 24, 2021 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH
The past year has certainly been eventful. Hopefully, there were a few “victories” along the way — surprising (and not so surprising) research results, accepted papers/proposals, qualifier defenses, graduations, chip tapeouts, and product releases. No...
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by The SIGARCH Executive Committee on Feb 22, 2021 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH, Policy
On February 8th, 2021, ACM publicly announced a summary of the Joint Investigative Committee’s (JIC’s) investigation into allegations of professional and publications related misconduct in our community. The announcement stated that there were several individuals who...
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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 The SIGARCH Executive Committee on Jun 22, 2020 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH, Ethics, Policy, Reviewing
The suicide of University of Florida student and ISCA’19 author Huixiang Chen a year ago shook our research community to the core. Everyone on SIGARCH’s Executive Committee mourns Huixiang on the first anniversary of his death. In connection with this tragedy, and...
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