News SIGMICRO History Project Prof Yan Solihin from North Carolina State University will lead an oral history project for SIGMICRO. In conjunction with the larger ACM history project, the SIGMICRO effort will do interviews and provide histories with pioneering figures in the field. Details of the overall ACM project are available at history.acm.org. Stay tuned to this site for additional details about the SIGMICRO project. Revamped SIGMICRO Newsletter Prof Russ Joseph from Northwestern University will serve as editor of a revamped SIGMICRO Newsletter to launch in the next few months. Stay tuned to this site for details. Computing Frontiers 2008 Computing Frontiers 2008 will be held May5-7 in Ischia, Italy. The increasing needs of present and future computation-intensive applications have stimulated research in new and innovative approaches to the design and implementation of high-performance computing systems. These boundaries between state of the art and innovation constitute the computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to provide the computational support required for the advancement of all science domains and applications. This conference focuses on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions; it is designed to foster communication among many scientific and technological disciplines. CGO-2008 CGO will be held April 6-9, 2008 in Omni Parker House Hotel, 60 School Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) provides a premier venue to bring together researchers and practitioners working on feedback-directed optimization and back-end compilation techniques. The conference covers static, dynamic, adaptive or continuous optimization. MICRO 40 MICRO 40 was held in Chicago, IL. The conference featured keynotes by Anat Agarwal of MIT and Mohanbir Sawhney of Northwestern University in addition to 35 papers, two workshops and four tutorials. MICRO 41 will be held in Italy. New SIGMICRO Leadership We now have a new leadership in place for SIGMICRO: Chair: Erik Altman (IBM) Vice-Chair: Lizy Kurian John (UT Austin) Secretary-Treasurer: David Kaeli (NorthEastern U.) Members-at-Large: Jim Dehnert (Google) Sally McKee (Cornell U.) Conference calendars links to ACM/IEEE calendars are now available. Find out more about ACM SIGMICRO Here you will find information about SIGMICRO's membership benefits and the most recent annual activity report. Micro 36 SIGMICRO’s flagship conference MICRO-36 will be held from December 2 to 5, 2003 in San Diego, California (http://www.microarch.org/micro36). Paper submission to MICRO-36 workshops is still open. MICRO-35 The attendees of MICRO-35 had a great time in Istanbul, Turkey. Attendance reached 213 despite the global difficulties. MICRO-35 received support from 11 different organizations, featured outstanding keynote speakers, and gave out a record amount of travel grants. A new SIGMICRO conference: CGO SIGMICRO is co-sponsoring a new conference, the First Annual International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, to be held March 2003 in Silicon Valley. The Program chair is Wen-Mei Hwu (Illinois), and the General Chairs are Tom Conte (NCSU) and Richard Johnson (Transmeta). Computing Frontiers conference SIGMICRO is launching another new international conference, Computing Frontiers, that will be held in Ischia, Italy, in April 2004. The program chairs are Jean Luc Gaudiot (UC Irvine, USA) and Vincenzo Piuri (U. Milan, Italy) and the general chair is Stamatis Vassiliadis (U. Delft, Netherlands). SIGMICRO provides access to past MICRO proceedings Being a SIGMICRO member now gives you access privileges to all the past proceedings of MICRO since 1973, at the ACM Digital Library. Click on “Digital Library” at the ACM home page [http://www.acm.org], select "proceedings," MICRO, the year/paper, and sign on with your SIGMICRO or ACM web account to download the paper. SIGMICRO co-sponsors CASES 2003 SIGMICRO is co-sponsoring the International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis of Embedded Systems (CASES 2003) conference (http://www.casesconference.org), which will take place from October 30 to November 1, 2003 in San Jose, California. 161 papers were submitted this year, and 31 papers were accepted, establishing CASES as a high quality conference in embedded systems. New SIGMICRO Leadership SIGMICRO's new officer elections were held from May 16 to June 22, 2005. We now have a new leadership in place for SIGMICRO: Chair: Tom Conte (NCSU) Vice-Chair: Erik Altman (IBM) Secretary-Treasurer: David Kaeli (NorthEastern U.) Members-at-Large: Jim Dehnert (Google) Lizy John (UT Austin) Sally McKee (Cornell U.) SIGMICRO Online Newsletter We are happy to announce that SIGMICRO's newsletter is going to re-appear as an online entity, with Erik Altman (IBM) as the editor. The newsletter will feature live presentations by SIGMICRO researchers which will be made available worldwide via a telephone conference. The audience will be able to ask live technical questions to the speaker. The presentation slides and audio will also be archived on the newsletter web site. MICRO-37 MICRO returned to Porland, Oregon once more after many years. The MICRO-37 general chairs were Bob Colwell (R&E Colwell and Associates) and Kevin Skadron (U. Virginia), and the program co-chairs were John Shen and Antonio Gonzalez (both from Intel). 29 papers were accepted out of 158 submissions. The keynote speakers were Shekhar Borkar (Intel) and Guri Sohi (U. Wisconsin-Madison). The conference included a highly original excursion to the Evergreen Aviation Museum, home of the Hughes Flying Boat. Code Generation and Optimization 2005 CGO 2005 was held May 20-23, 2005 at San Jose, CA. The general chairs were Jesse Fang (Intel) and Rajiv Gupta (U. Arizona), and the program chair was Brad Calder (UCSD). Keynotes were given by Michael Hind (IBM) and Saman Amarasinghe (MIT and Determina Corp.). There were 170 total attendees. 26 papers were accepted out of 75 submissions. Computing Frontiers 2005 The Computing Frontiers Conference 2005 (CF'05), was held for the second time from May 4 to 6, 2005, in Ischia, Italy, and brought together leading researchers from cutting edge areas. Computing Frontiers aims to achieve interdisciplinary innovation and synergism. This year's conference included a special session on reversible computing, as well as keynote speeches by Jim Smith (U. Wisconsin) and Valentina Salapura (IBM). The general chair was Nader Bagherzadeh (UC Irvine) and the Program Chairs were Mateo Valero and Alex Ramirez (both from UPC Barcelona). CASES-2005 The International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES-2005) will take place September 24-27, 2005 in San Francisco, CA. The general co-chairs are Tom Conte (NCSU) and Paolo Faraboschi (HP Labs), and the program co-chairs are Bill Mangione-Smith (UCLA) and Walid Najjar (UC Riverside). This year, the conference will focus on the complexity of system-level design and its associated challenges and requirements for compilers and architectures. MICRO-38 SIGMICRO's flagship conference, the 38th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-38), will be held in Barcelona, Spain, November 12-16, 2005. The general co-chairs are Gabby Silberman (IBM) and Paolo Faraboschi (HP Labs), and the program co-chairs are Mateo Valero (UPC Barcelona) and Alex Veidenbaum (UC Irvine) We encourage SIGMICRO members to attend MICRO-38. Industry News Browse news headlines from various sources including ACM TechNews.

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