NSF Student Travel Support for the 51st IEEE/ACM Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)

IEEE/ACM微体系结构研讨会（MICRO）是计算机体系结构领域的旗舰会议。2018年的年度会议将在日本福冈举行，同时还将举办几场相关主题的研讨会。会议是报告当前重要主题研究的重要场所，这些研究解决了计算领域的重大挑战，例如，即将到来的摩尔定律导致计算机器性能下降。该主题是NSF CISE/CCF部门SHF集群项目领域的主要焦点，因此MICRO是该项目支持的主要研究成果展示、讨论、辩论和绘制未来研究方向的场所。该奖项将为大约50名学生提供部分旅费和出席MICRO 2018的费用。由于参加微型计算机可被视为学术界计算机系统设计教育和研究的一个组成部分，这项建议将大大有助于支助信息技术重要领域的劳动力发展。来自科技公司（如IBM、英特尔、微软等）的主要研究人员也参加了会议，并为学术界和工业界之间的互动提供了基础，从而有可能加强针对当前和未来社会需求问题的技术转让。为50名学生提供的资助旨在加强参加者的多样性，从而在资助的参加者中保持代表不足和其他群体之间的平衡。项目完成后，获奖者将向NSF提交一份报告，详细说明学生的经历，以及支持他们参加与之相关的会议和研讨会的详细支出。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The IEEE/ACM Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) is a flagship conference in the area of computer architecture. The 2018 annual conference, along with several collocated workshops on related topics, will take place in Fukuoka, Japan. The conference is an important venue for reporting current research on important topics addressing grand challenges in computing resulting, e.g., from the impending Moore's law slowdown of performance of computing machines. The topic is the main focus of the program area of the SHF cluster of the CISE/CCF division at NSF, and thus MICRO is a venue where major results of research supported by the program gets presented, discussed, debated and future direction of research are charted. This award will support approximately 50 students by defraying part of their cost for travel and attendance for MICRO 2018. Since attendance to MICRO can be viewed as an integral part of computer systems design education and research in academia, the proposal would go a long way towards supporting workforce development in the important area information technology. The conference is also attended by leading researchers from technology companies (e.g., IBM, Intel, Microsoft etc.), and provides a basis for interaction between academia and industry, thus potentially enhancing technology transfer on problems of current and future societal needs. The grants to 50 students seek to enhance the diversity of the attendees, thus maintain a balance between underrepresented and other groups among the participants supported from the grant. Upon completion of the project, the awardee will submit a report to NSF with details of student experiences and the details of the expenditures towards supporting them to attend the conference and workshops collocated with it.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.