Travel Support for the Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems

编程语言和操作系统的体系结构支持国际会议(ASPLOS)是一个主要的多学科研究会议，涉及硬件、计算机体系结构、编译器、语言、操作系统、网络和应用程序等领域。ASPLOS为科学家和工程师提供了一个高质量的论坛，让他们展示在这些快速变化的领域中的最新研究成果。它捕捉到了过去20年的一些主要计算机系统创新(例如，RISC和VLIW处理器、小型和大规模多处理器、集群和工作站网络、优化编译器、RAID和网络存储系统设计)。该提案旨在通过获得旅行资金，帮助学生支付2013年3月在美国得克萨斯州休斯敦举行的会议的费用，从而支持这一备受关注的会议。将优先考虑那些将在ASPLOS或其联合讲习班上陈述他们的研究的学生，以及妇女和其他代表性不足的群体。这项建议将在更广泛的影响方面产生两个主要的直接好处。首先，由于这一旅行支助将使更多的人出席，因此ASPLOS会议将得到加强。其次，那些接受旅行支持的学生个人将受益于参与ASPLOS所促进的至关重要的技术、专业和社会交流的机会。我们还预计这项提议将产生两个额外的间接影响。首先，我们计划广泛宣传可提供的支持，以吸引妇女和代表不足的少数群体参加。第二，通过明确地向学生提供这种支持，我们希望增加学生对会议的参与。我们预计，会议上展示的研究成果--以及对学术界和产业界研究人员之间互动的重视--将由与会者带回他们的家乡机构，从而提高对计算机体系结构、编程语言和操作系统的多学科研究的意识和兴趣。

The International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and OperatingSystems (ASPLOS) is a premier multi-disciplinary conference for research that spans the boundariesof hardware, computer architecture, compilers, languages, operating systems, networking, andapplications. ASPLOS provides a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to presenttheir latest research findings in these rapidly changing fields. It has captured some of themajor computer systems innovations of the past two decades (e.g., RISC and VLIW processors,small and large-scale multiprocessors, clusters and networks-of-workstations, optimizing compilers,RAID, and network-storage system designs). This proposal aims to support this highly regardedconference by obtaining travel funds to help students defray the costs of attending the conferencein March 2013 in Houston, Texas USA. Priority will be given to those students who will present their research at ASPLOS or its joint workshops, and to women and other under-represented groups.This proposal will have two primary direct benefits in terms of broader impact. First, theASPLOS conference will be strengthened as a result of the greater attendance that this travelsupport will enable. Second, those students receiving travel support will personally benefitfrom the opportunity to engage in the all-important technical, professional, and social exchangesthat ASPLOS fosters.We also expect this proposal to have two additional indirect impacts. First, we plan to widelyadvertise the available support in order to attract women and under-represented minority groupsin attendance. Second, by providing this support expressly to students, we expect to increasestudent participation in the conference. We anticipate that the research results presentedat the conference -- as well as the emphasis on interaction between researchers in academiaand industry -- will be carried back by attendees to their home institutions, resulting inheightened awareness and interests in multidisciplinary research in computer architectures,programming languages, and operating systems.