by Rachit Nigam on Feb 17, 2021 | Tags: hardware accelerators, research, workshop
FPGA-based accelerators have opened up a new frontier for accelerator design; instead of spending months building and fabricating silicon chips, programmers can buy a cloud instance to run custom hardware accelerators within hours. With the remarkable new hardware, there is a need for remarkable new software.
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by Michael Hicks and Todd Millstein on Dec 8, 2020 | Tags: retrospective
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by Michael Hicks on Nov 12, 2020 |
Todd Millstein is joining PL Perspectives as co-Editor.
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by Jens Palsberg on Sep 15, 2020 | Tags: climate change, conferences, diversity, publication process, virtual conferences
Can virtual conferences be better than physical conferences? I will discuss what SIGPLAN is doing to make virtual conferences the best they can be, what SIGPLAN is doing on inclusion, and what ACM is planning for the future of publications and Gold Open Access
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by Michael Hicks on Sep 1, 2020 | Tags: research highlights
This post showcases three papers published in SIGPLAN venues which have been selected as SIGPLAN Research Highlights. Each of them has been nominated to appear in upcoming issues of the Communications of the ACM.
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by Stephanie Weirich and the ICFP Virtualization Committee on Aug 4, 2020 | Tags: conferences, functional programming
ICFP 2020 will be virtual, combining a mirrored technical program—all technical talks will appear twice, 12 hours apart—with a synchronous set of keynote talks and social events. This post says more about it. Be sure to register by August 8!
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