Editors:
Tianyin Xu, Akshitha Sriraman, Baris Kasikci, and Dong Du
Do you know what I did this summer? My experience as an intern at an industrial research lab
Editor’s note: Summer internships are good opportunities for graduate students to learn new research problems in industry, working with researchers and practitioners, and experience different culture. In this post, Vaastav Anand from MPI-SWS shares some of his great experience at Azure Research, a young systems research group at Microsoft. Apparently, he had a lot of
AI Goes Serverless: Are Systems Ready?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the world, powering productivity tools, healthcare, and education innovations through large-scale models like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, and Claude. Most of these models, managed by tech giants such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, require users to send data to centralized services. However, growing concerns over data security and privacy, along with
Evaluating the New ASPLOS Review Process
TL;DR The ASPLOS Steering Committee (SC) is soliciting feedback on the new review process introduced with ASPLOS 2023. The SC welcomes input on the impact of the new process and changes being contemplated for ASPLOS 2026. Please read this whole post then complete this online survey by Nov 8, 2024. Growing Pains In 2021, the ASPLOS SC solicited input on
The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman
I recently reached a few high points in my career that coincided, not coincidentally, with some of the worst harassment of my life. It made me reflect on how my career has been defined as much in terms of misogyny as technical excellence (I’ve garnered quite a CV in both), and how I have struggled
A discussion on how to build a better ChinaSys workshop
Background: The ChinaSys community just held a workshop in June 2024 in Hangzhou. The workshop added a Best Paper session (3 papers) and a Lightning Talk + Poster interactive session (54 papers), enabling participants to engage in extensive discussions on various aspects of systems such as architecture, OS, cloud computing, storage systems, machine learning systems,
Thinking outside the box: My PhD Odyssey From Single-Server Architecture to Distributed Datastores (Part 2)
Editor’s notes: We invite SIGOPS award winners to write about backstories behind the award-winning work. In this article, Antonis Katsarakis shares the journey of his PhD dissertation–“Invalidation-Based Protocols for Replicated Datastores”–which received the Honorable Mention of the 2023 Roger Needham PhD Award. Antonis is now a Principal Researcher at Huawei Research. He received his PhD from the