Micro-28 Advance Program

On behalf of the entire organizing committee, it is my pleasure to invite you to the 28th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture being held this year in in Ann Arbor, Michigan from November 29 - December 1, 1995.

For the past 27 years, the annual MICRO conference has provided a key venue for the dissemination of ideas and advances in the field of computer microarchitecture research. MICRO has recently become the premier forum for discussing and debating issues relating to instruction-level parallelism; and I am pleased to report that this trend has continued this year. We received an unprecedented number of outstanding submissions, each of which was rigorously reviewed by an average of 5.6 qualified individuals (both program committee members and outside reviewers). Based on these reviews, the program committee has put together a strong program of 22 long and 15 short papers, covering all facets of high-performance CPU design and compilation.

In addition to the paper presentations, Micro'28 will feature three invited lectures. These presentations will cover micro-architecture topics ranging from commercial state of the art microprocessors to alternative ways of looking at high-performance CPUs. In particular, I would like to thank Richard Baum for agreeing to give the keynote speech. His visions will be of great interest in their own right.

For the first time the Micro conference has come to the upper midwest and to lovely Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor has been selected as the host city because of its central location and proximity to the many outstanding universities in the region (starting with the University of Michigan). [EDITOR'S NOTE - Trev, can I say something here about how mild the weather will be in late November, or is it actually pretty beastly at times?]

In addition to the excellent slate of presentations, MICRO is famous for it's opportunities for personal interaction with leading researchers in the area. I invite you to join us in Ann Arbor, and I look forward to personally greeting each and every one of you!

Trevor Mudge
General Chair, Micro 28