In recent years MICRO has become the leading forum for work on instruction level parallelism. This year interest in the conference has continued to grow; and we had the strongest response yet to the call for papers, with 90 submissions. Of these, 22 were accepted as long papers and 15 as short papers. The reviewing process was extremely rigorous, with each paper receiving nearly six independent reviews (5.6 on average).
In order to complement the strong slate of technical papers, this year we have chosen executives from the computer industry to be our Keynote and Invited Speakers. We are hoping they will be able to provide a different perspective on the industry and its direction. I would like to thank our keynote speaker Richard Baum (IBM Fellow and Vice President), Thomas Jermoluk (President and C.O.O., SGI), and Fred Pollack (Intel Fellow and Director) for agreeing to present their views at MICRO-28. Their visions will be of great interest in their own right.
This year, we also have incorporated a day of tutorials in the conference, featuring three 2 1/2 hour presentations on the microarchitecture design rationale of three important new microprocessors (Intel P6, HAL SPARC64, and IBM PowerPC 604e). The presentations will be given by technical experts from the chip design teams. The tutorials are free of charge to the registrants of MICRO-28.
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.
In addition to the excellent slate of presentations, MICRO is famous for its opportunities for personal interaction with leading researchers in the area. I welcome you all to Ann Arbor, and I look forward to personally greeting each and every one of you!
Trevor Mudge
General Chair, MICRO-28
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Tuesday, November 28
Wednesday, November 29
Thursday, November 30
Friday, December 1st
Saturday, December 2
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Conference at a glance:
Tuesday, November 28
Data flow and Multithreading Architectures
Wednesday, November 29
Thursday, November 30
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Dr. Baum joined IBM as a Senior Associate Programmer in the MVS Design group in the Poughkeepsie Programming Center in 1976, and advanced to Development Manager in 1979, and then to Senior Programmer Manager in 1982. From 1984 to 1985 he was Technical Assistant to the Poughkeepsie Site General Manager. In 1985, he was promoted to Manager of Systems Technology in the Poughkeepsie Laboratory. After assuming responsibility for Central System Architecture, High End Processor Performance and Future Systems Design, Baum became Director of System Architecture and Design in 1989, and was appointed an IBM fellow while in this assignment in 1991. In 1993, Dr. Baum was appointed Assistant General Manager, Systems Technology, and in 1994, he was appointed Vice President, Systems Architecture and Performance, his current position.
He received a BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in
1971, and a PhD in Computer Science in 1975 from Ohio State University.
Since joining Silicon Graphics in 1986, Mr. Jermoluk has worked on
the design of a new CPU and bus architecture and the corresponding
UNIX operating system redesign for bringing new levels of performance
to the workstation class of machines. Previously, he was with
Hewlett-Packard Company as a research and development section manager,
responsible for hardware and software development on a new RISC-based
computer. Prior to H-P, he was manager of systems software at Bell
Laboratories in the UNIX development lab. Mr. Jermoluk has an M.S.
in computer science and a B.S. in computer science/electrical
engineering from Virginia Tech.
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MICRO-28 COMMITTEES
GENERAL CHAIR: PROGRAM CHAIR: PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Trevor Mudge Kemal Ebcioglu Matthew Farrens
U. Michigan IBM T.J. Watson U.C. Davis
STEERING COMMITTEE:
Richard Belgard, Consultant Gearold Johnson, National Tech'l U.
James Bondi, Texas Instruments Hans Mulder, Intel
Matthew Farrens, UC Davis Yale Patt, Michigan
Wen-mei Hwu, Illinois Andrew Wolfe, Princeton
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Vicki Allan, Utah State Richard Belgard, Consultant
David Bernstein, IBM Haifa (Israel) Jim Bondi, Texas Instruments
Bob Colwell, Intel Corp. Henk Corporaal, Delft U. (Netherlands)
Jim Dehnert, Silicon Graphics Josh Fisher, HP Labs
Mike Flynn, Stanford Guang Gao, McGill U. (Canada)
Jean-Luc Gaudiot, USC Rajiv Gupta, Pittsburgh
Stanley Habib, CUNY Martin Hopkins, IBM T.J. Watson
Wen-mei Hwu, Illinois Monica Lam, Stanford
Bill Mangione-Smith, UCLA Steve Melvin, Zytek
Jaime Moreno, IBM T.J. Watson Alex Nicolau, UC Irvine
Yale Patt, Michigan Bob Rau, HP Labs
Vivek Sarkar, IBM Software Solutions John Shen, Carnegie-Mellon
Gabriel Silberman, IBM T.J. Watson Jim Smith, Wisconsin
Mike Smith, Harvard Mary Lou Soffa, Pittsburgh
Andrew Wolfe, Princeton