by José F. Martínez on Jun 29, 2020 | Tags: Conference, ISCA, Virtual Meetings
On March 26, ISCA’20 general co-chair José Duato and I announced that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference would switch from an in-person event in Valencia (Spain) to a purely virtual one. An intense two-month pivot followed, whose outcome was ISCA’s...
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by Dmitry Ponomarev on Jun 9, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Security
In an earlier blog post, we argued that computer architects working on security problems should follow security conferences. In this post, we highlight some of the recent results from this year’s events that may be of interest to our community. While security...
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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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by Lieven Eeckhout on Apr 10, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Policy, Reviewing
[Editors’ Note: We close our series on conferences/travel with a discussion of an alternative review model from the most recent ISCA PC Chair. We welcome your inputs and alternative proposals in the comments section.] Our review model is under stress because of...
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by James Larus, Luis Ceze, and Karin Strauss on Apr 8, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Networking, Travel, Virtual Meetings
This article originally appeared on the CACM blog. ASPLOS, the ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, is an annual, ACM-sponsored conference that brings together roughly 300-350 researchers and students from the...
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