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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. This was a big jump to make, I had to wear a suit to work every day, and spend all my time paired up with a sales rep visiting customers.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . The best paper runner-up was “ Dynamic Multi-Resolution Data Storage ”. .