Archive of posts tagged: Policy
Virtual Conferences are Not the Solution (in the Long-Term)
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of conferences, including ASPLOS, DATE and ICLR, have abandoned their planned in-person gatherings and, instead, transitioned to virtual symposia. While painful, these are correct and responsible decisions given the...
Our Conferences and Climate Change
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...
Time to Eliminate In-Person PC 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...
HARDWARE 0-DAYS: PUBLISH, SELL OR HOARD? (PART IV)
What should vendors do when they discover that a hardware 0-day has been used to exploit systems built on their product? Some vulnerabilities may permit vendors to patch the vulnerability using microcode updates. For instance, a mitigation for the row hammer DRAM...Subscribe
