The following blog was originally posted in ACM SIGARCH on August 12, 2019. It is written by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Hill is the recipient of the 2019 Eckert-Mauchly award, a lifetime achievement award in computer architecture.  Many works present their results; this blog post seeks to aid you in developing your own great results, especially in computer architecture and systems. I learned these lessons over a career leading to an Eckert-Mauchly Award (acceptance speech). I structure this blog post with the scientific method in four steps: Pick a good problem. Develop insights and first hypotheses. Test and refine hypotheses. Repeat steps as needed. Pick A Good Problem  The first step to […]

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Shwetak Patel, Director of the Ubicomp Lab at University of Washington, will be giving the next free ACM TechTalk on “The Emerging Role of Mobile Computing in Health” on Thursday, August 1 at 2:30 PM ET/11:30 AM PT.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) just announced their 2018 ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellows award is ACM’s “most prestigious member grade,” which “recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.” The 2018 list honors 56 members of ACM for their contributions to computing. Among the 2018 Fellows is Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member David Parkes (Harvard University), recognized for his “contributions to computational markets, including novel mechanism design and incentive engineering methods.” David joined the CCC this year and is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group that is […]

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Beth Mynatt from Georgia Tech received the Strong Ally recognition yesterday at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018 in Montréal, Canada. From the ACM CHI website: Strong Ally – Recognizes individuals who have leveraged their professional expertise and institutional privilege to be a reliable ally and strategic partner advocating for the rights and full inclusion of people of marginalized identities. During her acceptance speech, Beth talked about three important things that she has learned. Foster impatience. Impatience that drives you to create opportunities for those around you to do the work our community wants and needs to do to create an inclusive future. Second, create […]

The following is from the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today Blog by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill, the John P. Morgridge Professor and Gene M. Amdahl Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ACM recently announced that computer scientists John Hennessy and David Patterson have shared the 2017 ACM Turing Award with the official citation, “For pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.” The Turing Award is the highest award in computer science. It is given for “lasting and major technical importance to the computer field” and has been compared to a Nobel Prize, whose categories pre-date […]

CCC Chair Beth Mynatt provided contributions to this post. How do you successfully accomplish human-centered computing research and design? Focus on users who are not you. Figure out someone else’s computing technology barriers and try to address them. Use these insights as the force that drives your research. Just some words of advice from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair, Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), College of Computing Distinguished Professor, and the Director of the Everyday Computing Lab, Beth Mynatt who was recently interviewed by her former student, Andrew Miller, for ACM’s Future of Computing Academy Computing Across Disciplines podcast. Beth talked about her work in advancing technology in […]