by Scott Mahlke and Onur Mutlu on Jan 25, 2018 | Tags: Conference, Diversity
As part of the MICRO-50 business meeting, there was a session devoted to discussing diversity in MICRO and more broadly computer architecture conferences. One of the decisions the SC co-chairs made (in consultation with many members of the MICRO community) was to get...
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by Scott Mahlke and Onur Mutlu on Nov 22, 2017 | Tags: Conference, Diversity
To all those who attended the MICRO business meeting diversity discussion and/or have followed it on this blog/twitter, we wanted to provide an update to the MICRO and broader computer architecture communities as to the next steps. First off, we want to thank everyone...
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by Sarita Adve on Oct 20, 2017 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH, 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...
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by Margaret Martonosi on Oct 17, 2017 | Tags: Diversity
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...
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by Natalie Enright Jerger and Kim Hazelwood on Sep 28, 2017 | Tags: Conference, Diversity
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....
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