Expert & Association Map

Build a map of technical experts and associations, try to stand on the shoulder of giants :)

Experts

• Computer Scientists
  • John L. Hennessy: Stanford University, scholar links
  • David A. Patterson: Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, scholar links
  • Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
  • Amin Vahdat, SIGCOMM 2020 Lifetime Contribution For groundbreaking contributions to data center and wide area networks.
• Maintainors
  • KVM & Qemu: Gleb Natapov, Paolo Bonzini
• Industry
  • James B. Keller, a Microprocessor Engineer, scholar links
  • Gerard Williams III, a Senior Director at Apple and Chief CPU Architect for nearly a decade
• Analysts
  • JANAKIRAM MSV: Analyst. Advisor. Architect. the convergence of machine intelligence and modern infrastructure.

Associations

• A.M. Turing Award
• SuperComputing
• General: standard organizations, industry associations and conferences
  • ACM: Association for Computing Machinery, SIGs, Conferences
    • Conferences Best Paper Awards
    • SIGCOMM Awards
  • usenix: the Advanced Computing Systems Association, Conferences
    • Best Papers: OSDI Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, ATC Best Paper Award
  • Linux Foundation: Events
  • IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
  • IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    • Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA
  • CCF: China Computer Federation
  • Linaro Events
  • FOSDEM: a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
  • LPC, Linux Plumbers Conference
• Network: standard organizations, industry associations and conferences
  • ACM ANCS: Architecture for Networking and Communications Systems
  • usenix NSDI Symposia
  • TIA: Telecommunications Industry Association
  • INCITS: the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
  • OASIS Technical Committees: virtio etc.
• Hypervisor: standard organizations, industry associations and conferences
  • ACM SOSP: ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
  • ACM EUROSYS: European Conference on Computer Systems
  • ACM VEE: ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments
  • usenix OSDI Symposia
  • KVM Forum
  • DockerCon
  • CNCF: cloud native computing foundation
• Storage: standard organizations, industry associations and conferences
  • NVMe
  • SNIA: Storage Networking Industry Association
  • SDC: Storage Developer Conference
• Chips
  • Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips
  • The Linley Group: The Industry’s leading experts in semiconductor markets

Industry Events

• THENEXTPLATFORM: published by Stackhouse Publishing Inc in partnership with the UK’s top technology publication, The Register. Offers in-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds.
• The Six Five Summit, NVIDIA GTC, ARM Events, Intel Architecture Day, VMware vmworld
• MIT Technology Review Topics Computing

Research Institutes

• UC Berkeley, EECS
  • RISELab at UC Berkeley, AMPLab
• WukLab, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, Building Next-Generation Datacenter Systems
• Virginia Tech, Research Institutes and university research centers
  • System Software Research Group: projects
• Stevens Institute of Technology, Research Centers & Labs
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, area of HPC.