• Lisa Amini (IBM)
• Margaret Martonosi (NSF)
• Bart Selman (Cornell)

Moderator: Ben Zorn (Microsoft)

• Sujata Banerjee (VMware)
• Srilatha (Bobbie) Manne (AMD)
• Parthasarathy Ranganathan (Google)

Moderator: Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Tech)

Mark D. Hill
Microsoft (Azure) and U. Wisconsin (Emeritus)

Abstract: You might think that the key to driving innovation in academia and industry is solving problems and refining solutions. While these are important, the most critical and valued talents are picking a problem and getting started toward understanding it. I will share on some tips on these talents from forty years of experience. Even with generative AI, I predict that humans will drive these steps. Reference: Increasing Your Research Impact, SIGARCH Blog, 08/2019 [https://www.sigarch.org/increasing-your-research-impact/].

Biography: Mark D. Hill is Partner Hardware Architect with Microsoft Azure (2020-present) where he leads software-hardware pathfinding. He is also the Gene M. Amdahl and John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill), following his 1988-2020 service in Computer Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include parallel-computer system design, memory system design, and computer simulation. Hill’s work is highly collaborative with over 160 co-authors. He received the 2019 Eckert-Mauchly Award and is a fellow of AAAS, ACM, and IEEE. He served on the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) 2013-21 including as CCC Chair 2018-20, Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors 2018-20, and Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department Chair 2014-2017. Hill has a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.