Workshop on Computer
Architecture Education
Associated with the 50th International Symposium on Computer Architecture
a constituent conference of the Federated Computing Research Conference
Orlando, FL
June 17, 2023
Submission deadline, May 22. Submit by May 1 to receive a decision by May 18, the early registration deadline!
WCAE provides a forum for educators in computer architecture to discuss
and share their experiences and teaching philosophy. Past WCAEs have been held
in conjunction with HPCA, ISCA, and Micro. Over 230 papers on computer
architecture education have been presented at the workshop since its inception
in 1995. Participants will come away from the workshop with new ideas on
delivering courses in computer architecture.
“Nifty Assignments” session
We are adding a “nifty assignments” session to this year’s workshop. This
session allows you to share your favorite assignments with attendees and
others. The materials submitted should be detailed enough so that
other instructors could use them to construct assignments for their own
courses, but not detailed enough that someone could re-use a submission to your
assignment as a submission to another instructor’s assignment based on your
materials.
Ideas for nifty assignments should be emailed to the organizer (efg@ncsu.edu) rather than submitted through EasyChair.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following.
Approaches to introductory courses
Advanced courses
Online resources
Resources for “flipped” classes
Materials for active learning
Lecture vs. hybrid vs. flipped classes
Lab support for distance education
Textbook development
Critical evaluation of textbook approaches
Metrics for evaluating learning gains
Integration of research into teaching
Industrial support for teaching
Resources & techniques for teaching …
GPU architecture & programming
quantum architecture & programming
multicore/many-core issues
comp. arch. concepts with FPGAs
architectural & software issues specific to embedded systems
Tools and techniques for autograding non-programming assignments
Hardware tools
Simulators and other software tools
Prototyping
Visualization aids
Broadening participation in computer architecture
Encouraging
undergraduate research
Encouraging students to pursue a Ph.D.
Organizer
Ed Gehringer, North Carolina State University
Program Committee
João M. P. Cardoso, University of Porto
Jim Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Henry Duwe, Iowa State University
Xinfei Guo, University of Virginia
Sarah Harris, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Byunghyun Jang, University of Mississippi
Dave Kaeli, Northeastern University
Zachary Kurmas, Grand Valley State University
Yale Patt, University of Texas
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano
Early-decision deadline: Submit by May 1 to receive a
decision before the ISCA early-registration deadline.
Final submission deadline: May 22, 2023