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

Adrian Cockcroft

I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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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. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks. Conference.