I have a limited time budget for external professional activities but have enjoyed many opportunities to work with the academic comunity and other professional organizations.
Between 2013 and 2019 I served as a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a division of the National Research Council
Program chair of ACM ISCA 2009
Serving at the ASPLOS 2016 program committee; having previously served at PCs for ASPLOS'08, ISCA ('01, '02, '05, '06, '07, '09), SBAC-PAD ('01, '03, '06), PACT'04, ICS ('02, '03), IEEE Top Picks in Computer Architecture, 2008.
Serving at the steering committee of the NSF Workshop on Sustainable Data Centers; having previously served on steering committees for ISCA 2010 and ISCA 2011
Lectures at Columbia, Duke, USC, U. Edinburgh, UT Austin, Imperial College, Cambridge University, Harvard University, U. Michigan, UPC, Stanford University, UC Berkeley
Keynote talks at SOCC'16, PLDI'16, FCRC'11, SIGMOD'10, ASPLOS'09, ISLPED'08, IISWC'06, SBAC-PAD'03
National Academy of Engineering's Gilbreth Lectureship, 2012
See list of talks here
Popular Science named the COVID-19 Exposure Notification Technology co-developed by Google and Apple the Innovation of the Year in 2020.
Wired magazine has writen an article about our latest StreetView cars and related computer vision technology. The accompanying video featuring some of my colleagues is worth a watch.
A 2012 Wired article interviews me on the concept of Warehouse Computing.
Wired has written other articles on our work at Google, including one on datacenters and a profile of my colleagues Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Urs Hoelzle and me.
I play guitar and bass guitar in Catherine Warner's new album, Loss and Found.
In 2020 I received the 2020 Eckert-Mauchly Award, given by the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society for pioneering the design of warehouse-scale computing and driving it from concept to industry.
As technical lead of the Google Platforms team between 2010-2015, I started a project aimed at hardware acceleration of machine learning applications which resulted in the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), a custom ASIC that powers several ML systems at Google, including image understanding from Street View.
I wrote the foreword for the 5th edition of Hennessy & Patterson's Computer Architecture: A quantitative approach, the classic textbook on computer architecture which was first printed when I was a graduate student.
Co-authored the NRC report: The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level?, which describes how underlying circuit technology is no longer yielding the year-over-year improvements we have been accustomed to since Moore's law was "enacted", and what that means to the future of computing.
A short essay on innovation that I wrote for an internal Google audience was subsequently published in Google's re:Work blog. See The Roofshot Manifesto. It was then added to the 2nd edition of E.Schmidt's and J.Rosenberg's How Google Works.
I co-wrote the official SIGARCH/TCCA best practices document for ISCA program chairs.
I was the guest co-editor of IEEE Micro Jul/Aug 2010 special issue on Datacenter-scale Computing
Computer Architecture meets Architecture in a column Urs and I wrote for the Architecture publication CLOG
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