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3-4 July 2025, Abingdon
ECOOP 2025
30 June - 4 July 2025
Bergen, Norway
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) has announced its 2025 cohort of new Fellows, which includes Professor Michael O'Boyle (University of Edinburgh)
2024 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Austin, Texas
2nd to 6th November 2024.
‘Active Intelligence for Secure Systems: Designing High-Performance, Robust, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems for Cyber-Security’
Dr Tanya Shreedhar among the 12 finalists for L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK and Ireland Rising Talents Awards 2023.
16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation - 11-13 July
"Upcycling Packets as Persistent In-Memory Data Structures"
30th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT)
September 26-29, 2021
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 14-19 2021
18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
April 12 - 14, 2021
Hermes: Fast, Fault-Tolerant and Linearizable Data Replication

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'Modeling Black-Box Components with Probabilistic Synthesis'
Awarded for his pioneering work on deep learning
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)
Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming 2020 (PPoPP)
Congratulations to the many ICSA researchers who have contributed to six papers which will be presented at the CC/CGO/HPCA/PPoPP and together comprise one of the leading venues in Computer Systems Research.
'Domain-Specialized Cache Management for Graph Analytics'
2019 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
Tom Spink, Harry Wagstaff, and Björn Franke won with their paper "A Retargetable System-Level DBT Hypervisor".
Institute for Computing Systems Architecture hosted HiPEAC Computing Systems Week themed ‘Innovation and High-Performance Computing (HPC)’ in April 2019.
Two papers from ICSA researchers have been accepted to be presented at USENIX ATC'19
Nicolai Oswald has been awarded the 2019 Google Fellowship. He received funding in the area of Systems and Networking.
ICSA researchers won three paper awards at two co-located conferences in Washington DC: the International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) and the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO).
Mike O’Boyle has been invited to give the CGO (International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization) keynote at the upcoming HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC conference in Feb 2019.
ProtoGen, work lead by ICSA researchers, has been designated as an honourable mention by the computer architecture community.
Rui Li and Chaoyun Zhang won the best student paper award at the International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN'2018).
The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh has multiple faculty positions in the broad area of Systems.
ICSA researchers trial a novel DIY mobile network deployment model for rural and developing regions
Martin Kristien is a member of the Edinburgh HYPED team
Two papers from ICSA researchers have been accepted for presentation at The 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), the premier venue for computer architecture research.
The Memorable Paper Award recognizes the best recent research on non-volatile memories published throughout the world.
Research will explore "Heterogeneous Thinking": a fundamental re-think of how we design, program and use heterogeneous systems.
LIFT project gains further Industrial Backing
LIFT Team win the Best Paper award at the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)
ICSA researchers present at the 23rd ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
Best demonstration award at ACM MobiCom 2017 conference for ICSA researchers.
ICSA PhD student's paper was accepted to ACM MobiCom 2017 Conference.
ICSA and PPar CDT student Chris Cummins has taken the Best Paper award at PACT 2017
Xenofon Foukas has been awarded the Brendan Murphy Prize
Two ICSA research teams' papers have been selected to receive 2017 HiPEAC paper awards
PPar CDT student been selected to attend the 5th Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2017
ICSA PhD student's paper was accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2017 Conference
PPar CDT student and supervisors paper has been accepted at ISSTA 2017.
Pramod Bhatotia has won the Best Paper award at EUROSYS 2017
Two PhD studentships are available in collaboration with ARM
Christophe Dubach awarded his 3rd consecutive Google Research Award.
'Just-In-Time' Paper has been accepted for publication at #VEE17
Mike O'Boyle' paper has won the CGO Test of Time award 2017
Paul Patras Joins Key Communications Research Bodies
School of Informatics funding new cross-school research programmes
Recent open source release of the Lift compiler been discussed
ICSA has been awarded access to an Intel Xeon+FPGA system
PPar CDT student Ludovic Capelli interviewed in The Herald
PhD student Saumay Dublish has been awarded the Saranu International Research Scholarship
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