Eric Rotenberg Inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame

 
Dr. Eric Rotenberg

Dr. Eric Rotenberg, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University, has been inducted into the "MICRO Hall of Fame" which recognizes authors who have published eight or more papers in MICRO over its 45 years of existence.  Currently, 39 authors have achieved this distinction - http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/micro-hof.txt/view.

MICRO is the flagship conference for microprocessor architecture and one of the four top-tier computer architecture conferences.  MICRO-45 had 228 submissions of which 40 were accepted after a rigorous review process including rebuttal and shepherding phases.

"Just as IEEE has grassroots 'Technical Committees (TC)' on various technical specialties, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) has analogous 'Special Interest Groups (SIG)'" says Rotenberg.

SIGMICRO is ACM's Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture. They co-sponsor several premier computer architecture conferences, including MICRO.  The award that Dr. Rotenberg received is sponsored by ACM SIGMICRO, but is in fact related to the MICRO Conference.

Dr. Rotenberg has published papers on topics such as new paradigms for exploiting instruction-level parallelism (ILP), novel high-performance processors, automating superscalar processor design, and more, with his first MICRO paper being published in 1996.

According to Dr. Rotenberg, "'Microarchitecture' deals with the design of microprocessors, memory systems, etc., that can be found in all computers, including smart phones and other handheld devices, laptops and PCs, Cloud data centers, and supercomputers."

The paper, "Control-Flow Decoupling," that put Dr. Rotenberg over the top was co-authored by Rotenberg, Rami Sheikh, and Dr. James Tuck. Sheikh is a PHD student who is being advised by Dr. Rotenberg and Dr. Tuck is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University.

More information about MICRO can be found at the MICRO Conference Website.

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