by Vijay Chidambaram on Dec 18, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Policy, Reviewing
Including one-shot revision in our peer review process could lead to lower overall reviewing load, better mental health for graduate students, and better overall science. Most of the top conferences in systems and architecture follow the binary decision model: the...
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by Jun Yang and Mattan Erez on Oct 7, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Reviewing, Virtual Meetings
MICRO 2020 is one of the earliest large conferences that experienced the full course of the pandemic starting from the lockdown order throughout the entire US. The submission deadline was pushed back due to the abrupt changes in normality. This helped authors to...
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by Akanksha Jain and Arpit Joshi on Sep 10, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Networking, Reviewing
This blog post recounts the first program committee meeting experiences of two recent PhDs. Akanksha Jain My first experience being a PC member was for HPCA 2019. I was quite nervous going in, but I have to say that the overall experience was one of the most enjoyable...
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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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