TL;DR The ASPLOS Steering Committee is considering two changes to the ASPLOS submission process: 1) three submission deadlines spread over the year, and 2) the possibility for papers near acceptance to be revised and resubmitted. This proposal outlines these changes. The steering committee welcomes comments and suggestions for improvement (please read the whole thing first) … Read more
With about half a century of life, the Unix shell is pervasive and entrenched in our computing infrastructure—with recent virtualization and containerization trends only propelling its use. A fresh surge of academic research highlights show potential for tackling long-standing open problems that are central to the shell and enable further progress. A recent panel discussion … Read more
Editor’s notes: The new faculty job search season is approaching. We invite newly-hired professors to share their experiences and practices of faculty job search, in the hope of providing valuable information for new faculty candidates to know more about the process and prepare their search accordingly. We invite Manuel Rigger to open up the series. … Read more
ACM Turing Award Celebration Conference – China (ACM TURC 2021) was held in Hefei, China from July 30 to August 1, 2021. The conference announced winners of the Rising Star Award and the Doctoral Dissertation Award. Researchers recommended by ChinaSys have performed excellently: they have received two Doctoral Dissertation Awards and two honorable nominations for … Read more