Participating in MICRO 2020

Before the Symposium Starts

During the Symposium

  • Watch Live Keynotes and Technical Sessions
    (on Whova; see the program for the schedule)
  • Ask Written Questions During Sessions
    (using the Zoom Q&A for each talk)

Invitation to Participate in the Symposium

MICRO 2020 Moving Online

Until science and technology free humanity from the stress and the consequences of the pandemic, we will have to keep using science and technology to meet with our colleagues and share our research results only online. Our research community is looking forward to the time when we will be able again to meet in person, see each other's eyes, chat over coffee, and debate over wine.

The MICRO 2020 symposium will be held as a global online event, to allow everyone from around the world to participate and enjoy the experience. Details about the technical program and the registration and participation procedures can be found below, with more information coming soon. The committees of MICRO 2020 wish you are all staying well and safe.

On behalf of the steering and organizing committees of MICRO 2020,
—Dimitris Gizopoulos, General Chair
   Jun Yang and Mattan Erez, Program Co-Chairs

Program Structure

Architecting the technical program and schedule of a global online event with large attendance from around the world is a very challenging task. As the experience from several symposia recently held virtually revealed, different optimization targets can be selected.

We decided to give priority to the following aspects:

  • Giving the feeling of an in-person symposium in terms of timing
    The three-track regular paper session format is exactly what we were planning for the in-person event given that MICRO-53 has more regular papers than any prior MICRO conference (82 papers). This format allows attendees to effectively switch parallel rooms to attend the talks they prefer. We believe that this format will maximize concurrent live participation of the attendees in the daily program of MICRO-53.
  • Reducing the time span of the daily program
    All three days of the symposium have the same duration of only 4.5 hours (weekend workshops and tutorials consist of two three-hour slots each day). This tight time span allows attendees from all different time zones to devote a relatively short (and consistent across the three days) period of their day to attend all sessions of the day – this is impossible with a longer time span.
    We understand that the 4.5 hours period of the three days may cause some inconveniences to participants in some time zones: (a) attendees from North and South America will have to devote their full morning (or start the day earlier than usually), (b) attendees from Europe and Africa will have to devote their full afternoon/evening, (c) attendees from Asia and Australia will have to stay up late in the evening and after midnight. But, still for all these cases, the "sacrifice" has the same short duration of 4.5 hours and it stays on the same easy-to-remember slot each day.
  • Maximizing session attendance
    The dense format and short time span we selected aim to maximize session attendance. It has been observed in several virtual events that a more extended timeline with several hours duration leads to limited attendance in most sessions. We hope that the MICRO-53 program format will allow attendees to join most of the live sessions and will also allow the speakers to spread the word of their research to as many attendees as possible.

Attendee Conduct Guidelines

As a flagship IEEE and ACM co-sponsored technical meeting, MICRO complies with and supports the IEEE and ACM statements for events conduct and openness. The symposium organizers expect that all attendees will read and abide by the full MICRO code of conduct.

MICRO will follow the ACM Policy Against Harassment at ACM Activities as well as related procedures. Please familiarize yourself with the policy and the guide to Reporting Unacceptable Behavior at ACM Activities. SIGARCH and SIGMICRO have also formed a joint committee called CARES, which can provide guidance to those who experience harassment or discrimination at ACM events.