Award Ceremony: ICCAD 2020 Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award

By John / 16 November 2020

The ICCAD Executive Committee has recognized “3D-ICE: Fast Compact Transient Thermal Modeling for 3D ICs with Inter-Tier Liquid Cooling” as “the most influential on research and industrial practice in computer-aided design of integrated circuits over the ten years since its original appearance at ICCAD.” The authors of the paper are Arvind Sridhar, Alessandro Vincenzi, Martino Ruggiero, David Atienza (all from the Embedded Systems Laboratory – ESL at EPFL), and Thomas Brunschwiler (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory).

Fighting Digital Disinformation: Is it a Case of “Too Little Too Late”?

By John / 9 November 2020

Experts on cyber security, fake news, and democracy called for an awakening among citizens and governments so that urgent heed is paid to this growing menace, which threatens the very essence of democracy.

VLDB Women in Database Research Award 2020

Celebrating the Woman Researcher: Anastasia Ailamaki Receives VLDB Women in Database Research Award 2020

By John / 2 November 2020

In a major recognition of Swiss innovation and excellence in database research, the VLDB Endowment has conferred the prestigious VLDB Women in Database Research Award on Anastasia Ailamaki, EPFL professor and co-founder of Raw Labs.