Elegant C

Today, Michal Friedman , gave a talk on Concurrent Data Structures for Non-Volatile Memory. Future systems will contain non-volatile memo...

Back at SIGCSE again, this one the 50th to be held.  Much of my time is spent dashing about and renewing friendships.  That said, I made it ...

This week I have been co-hosting Miranda Parker , from Georgia Tech, as part of our Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy .  Her work is t...

Ben Blum  defended his dissertation work today on Practical Concurrency Testing.  What follows are the notes from that defense. To prove t...

Dr. Thomas H. Zurbuchen the Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate gave a talk today about some key lessons he h...

We can consider parallelism strategies as either competitive (such as pthreads) or cooperative (such as Cilk).  Cooperative systems assume t...

Today I attended Alexei Colin's thesis defense titled, Systems Support for Intermittent Computing. For small, embedded devices, batter...

I have just finished attending SIGCSE 2018 in Baltimore.  In contrast to my earlier conference attendance, this time I have had higher invol...

Today, I went to Michael Sullivan 's thesis defense, who passed.  The work was at a delightful intersection of my interests. We want b...

Kelly Rivers defended her PhD work this afternoon.  She will returning to CMU this fall as a teaching professor. Student enrollment is in...

I started my morning by attending my regular POGIL session.  I like the technique and using it in the classroom.  However, I should probably...

Here in Seattle, where I used to live, attending SIGCSE 2017. Exposed! CS Faculty Caught Lecturing in Public: A Survey of Instructional Pra...

I started the conference attendance this time on Saturday, with the LLVM-Performance workshop at which I presented an extension to my disse...

It is once again, conference time.  For North Americans, this might seem rather early as I am writing from Prague, Czech Republic (or at lea...

Kenneth Czechowski defended his dissertation work this week. He is trying to develop a science to the normal art of diagnosing low-level pe...

Similar to every other talk on Computer Architecture, first we need to revisit history.  Only by knowing from where we came, do we envision ...

PhD Candidate  Samantha Lo  defended her dissertation work today. Virtual networks (VNs) may require migration due to maintenance, resourc...

Intersection of Programming Languages, Databases, and analytics (Machine Learning, etc) Businesses are big systems that can then be modele...

Yacin Nadji , a PhD candidate in security at Georgia Tech, successfully defended his dissertation work today. How does one disable a botne...

Plenary Talk today, which pulls together all of the conference attendees.  Sunday's talk was based in databases, with Michael Stonebrake...