by Aasheesh Kolli on Mar 20, 2020 | Tags: Climate Action, Conference, Networking, Opinion, Policy, Travel, Virtual Meetings
We need to act on climate change now. With global emissions continuing to rise at an alarming rate there is an urgent need to adopt measures to reduce emissions. The UN calls climate change “the defining issue of our times”. It is imperative that we, the...
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by Tony Nowatzki and Newsha Ardalani on Mar 13, 2020 | Tags: Conference
By all accounts, HPCA (and co-located PPoPP/CGO) was a tremendous success with fabulous keynotes, many ground-breaking papers and an almost too-wonderful setting in sunny San Diego. Keynotes The first day was started by a keynote from Josep Torellas from UIUC, who...
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by Natalie Enright Jerger on Mar 11, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Networking, Opinion, Policy, Reviewing, Travel, Virtual Meetings
[Editors’ note: This is the first in a series of upcoming posts on conferences and travel.] It’s time to end the in-person PC meeting. On many fronts it no longer makes sense for 60+ people to travel to one location to each discuss a handful of papers. There...
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by T. N. Vijaykumar on Nov 18, 2019 | Tags: Conference, Opinion
A pop quiz for reviewers.
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by Srilatha Manne and Muntaquim Chowdhury on Nov 11, 2019 | Tags: Advice, Conference, Industry
Processor architecture has incorporated many research ideas from the academic community, from SMT to cache allocation policies. In this article, the question we are trying to answer is what makes an idea take hold. What is it about a paper that makes it interesting to...
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