Editors:
Tianyin Xu, Akshitha Sriraman, Baris Kasikci, and Dong Du
K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple, Smart!
The end of October 2023 was an exciting time, since the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ’23) took place in Koblenz, Germany and the 14th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC ’23) in Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Both conferences featured exciting keynote talks, paper presentations and poster sessions with attendees from all
Artifact evaluation, theory and practice
Previously on the SIGOPS blog, we discussed the current status of artifact evaluation (AE) and how to improve it. At HotOS’23, we took another step in this direction: attendees discussed artifact evaluation in a panel led by Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown), Margo Seltzer (UBC), and Neeraja Yadwadkar (UT Austin), and organized by Roberta De Viti (MPI-SWS),
Systems Trivia: Behind The Scenes
Editor’s note: Since HotOS ’21, Systems Trivia has become systems researchers’ favorite activity – it’s always incredibly fun and educational. Systems Trivia was created by Roberta De Viti and Vaastav Anand who have then been successfully running it at HotOS ’21, SOSP ’21, and HotOS ’23. In this article, We invite Roberta and Vaastav to
Artifact evaluation, present and future
Science should be transparent and reproducible. In computer science, this means code and data should be publicly available and anyone should be able to validate a paper’s claims given reasonable hardware. Dedicated scientists have made their code and data public for decades, but until recently, this was done in a decentralized fashion. Groups had their
Should conferences have a rebuttal phase?
Many CS systems and architecture conferences have a rebuttal phase or an author response period, where authors can respond to the questions asked by reviewers, and correct misunderstandings by reviewers. We discuss the pros and cons of this phase, and whether it is a net positive or negative for the community. The author response phase
Response to Change in the ASPLOS Conference Submission Process
In late November, the ASPLOS Steering Committee published a proposal to change the paper submission process for ASPLOS by introducing three deadlines per year and the possibility of resubmitting a paper. The Steering Committee asked the ASPLOS community for its opinion of the changes and suggestions for improvement. 64 people responded, and an overwhelming majority strongly