CS@CU Distinguished Lecture Series
Taking on the World's Challenges: The Role of Computer Systems and Architecture Research
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University
Abstract:
Throughout human history, society has faced great opportunities and challenges, and has used its available technologies to navigate them. Today, many of the global opportunities and challenges we face call for the full engagement of the computer systems and architecture research community. Resiliently navigating climate trends will require computing techniques and systems to model the future, as well as innovative techniques to mitigate carbon footprint by employing telepresence, optimizing logistics, and more. Another grand challenge of our era is the ability for us as individuals and as groups to communicate with each other in a way that upholds accuracy, integrity, privacy, and trust. This talk will discuss how the different elements of the computer science ecosystem— academia, industry, professional organizations, and governments—can work together to meet these challenges. It will be a call to action on how we can best navigate the next decade and beyond to do so.
Bio:
Margaret Martonosi is the H.T. Adams '35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 1994. In addition, while on leave from Princeton, Martonosi recently served a 4-year rotation leading the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. NSF is the primary source of federal research funding for computing. Martonosi’s role there was to lead budget and operational strategy in stewarding this funding for the community.
Martonosi is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2021, she received computer architecture’s highest honor, the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award, for contributions to the design, modeling, and verification of power-efficient computer architecture. She is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. Her papers have received numerous long-term impact awards in the SIGARCH, SIGMOBILE, and other communities. She received the 2023 ACM Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring, for her impacts on computer architecture and the broader computing community. Other notable awards include the 2018 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2010 Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award, and the 2019 ACM SIGARCH Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award. Her work with others to co-found the ACM CARES movement was recognized by the Computing Research Association’s 2020 Distinguished Service Award.
