Mark D. Hill Gene M. Amdahl & John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences

Selected Professional Activities

Associate Editor of Communications of the ACM (CACM) for Research Pathways, 2024-present.

Professional Organization Officer

• Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Emeritus 2020-21; Chair, 2018-20, Vice Chair, 2016-18; Executive Committee, 2014-16; Board, 2013-14.
• Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors, 2018-20.
• Member of Executive Committee for IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), 2015-2017.
• Member of Board of Directors for ACM SIGARCH (Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture), 1993-2007.
• Information Director for ACM SIGARCH, 1995-2002.

(Co-)Led Service Efforts

• Computing Innovation Fellows 2020: Co-Principal Investigator, Steering Committee Member, and Selection Committee Co-Chair providing 59 postdocs in computing in response to COVID-19 impact on academic job market.

• CRA Industry/Academia Committee Report,
  Vivek Sarkar, Nancy Amato, Susan Davidson, Eric de Sturler, David Ebert, Mark D. Hill, Charles Isbell, Shwetak Patel, Chris Ramming, Divesh Srivastava, Marvin Theimer, Benjamin Zorn,
  Computing Research Association, May 29, 2020
  URL: https://cra.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CRA-Industry_Academia-Committee-Report.pdf
  Blog Post & Talk (8/2020): html

• Democratizing Design for Future Computing Platforms,
  Luis Ceze, Mark D. Hill, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Thomas F. Wenisch,
  Computing Community Consortium, Jun 26, 2017.
  arVix: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08597
  Local copy: pdf

• Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy,
  Vasant G. Honavar, Katherine Yelick, Klara Nahrstedt, Holly Rushmeier, Jennifer Rexford, Mark D. Hill, Elizabeth Bradley, and Elizabeth Mynatt,
  Computing Community Consortium, Jun 30, 2017.
  arVix: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00599
  Local copy: pdf

• Nanotechnology-inspired Information Processing Systems of the Future,
  Randy Bryant, Mark Hill, Tom Kazior, Daniel Lee, Jie Liu, Klara Nahrstedt, Vijay Narayanan, Jan Rabaey, Hava Siegelmann, Naresh Shanbhag, Naveen Verma, H.-S. Philip Wong,
  Computing Community Consortium, released Feb 13, 2017.
  

• Arch2030: A Vision of Computer Architecture Research over the Next 15 Years,
  Luis Ceze, Mark D. Hill, Thomas F. Wenisch,
  Computing Community Consortium, Dec 9, 2016.
  arVIX: http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03182
  Local copy: pdf
  Also appears in Communications of the China Computer Federation (CCCF), Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2017, translated into Chinese by State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture: pdf
  Outbrief (3/2017): pptx

• Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda,
  Vasant G. Honavar, Mark D. Hill, and Katherine Yelick,
  Computing Community Consortium, Feb 19, 2016.
  URL: http://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Accelerating-Science-Whitepaper-CCC-Final2.pdf
  Local copy: pdf
  

• Opportunities and Challenges for Next Generation Computing,
  Gregory D. Hager, Mark D. Hill, and Katherine Yelick,
  Computing Community Consortium, October 19, 2015.
  URL: http://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/NextGenComputingChallenges.pdf
  Local copy: pdf
  

• 21st Century Computer Architecture,
  Mark D. Hill, Sarita Adve, Luis Ceze, Mary Jane Irwin, David Kaeli, Margaret Martonosi, Josep Torrellas, Thomas F. Wenisch, David Wood, Katherine Yelick,
  Computing Community Consortium, May 25, 2012.
  Local copy: pdf
  Outbriefs : pptx and pptx
  Cited by and contributed to NSF XPS program at roughly $16M annually.
  Chinese translation by State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture (SKL-Carch) and republication: Computing Community Consortium (CCC), 21st Century Computer Architecture, Communication of the China Computer Federation (CCF), 2012, Volume 8, Issue 12, p70-81.
  Local copy of translation: pdf

• Advancing Computer Systems without Technology Progress ,
  Mark D. Hill and Christos Kozyrakis,
  ISAT Outbrief, April 17-18, 2012, of DARPA/ISAT Workshop, March 26-27, 2012.
  Talk: pdf

Series Editor

• Founding Editor of Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2005-2014.

Selected Memberships

• Computer Research Association (CRA) Committee on Best Practices for Hiring, Promotion, and Scholarship, 2014-present.
• Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group, 2010-2013, that reports to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on research directions. On Steering Committee 2012-2013.
• Defense Science Study Group (DSSG), 1998-1999. Directed by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

National Academy Study Memberships

• Global Approaches to Advanced Computing under the Policy and Global Affairs Division (PGA) of the National Research Council (NRC), 2011-2012. Report: The New Global Ecosystem in Advanced Computing: Implications for U.S. Competitiveness and National Security with table of contents
  
• Sustaining Growth in Computing Performance, under the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC), 2007-2010. Report: The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level? with online copy: pdf
  
• Fundamentals of Computer Science under the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council (NRC), 2001-2003. Report: Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field with opline copy: Online Copy: pdf

Program Committees

• ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA): 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005 (Chair), 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014.
• IEEE Micro Top Picks in Computer Architecture, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012.
• IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 1997, 2010, 2011.
• ACM/IEEE International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 1991, 1994, 1998, 2008.
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2002.
• ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 1995, 2001.
• ACM Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 1995.

Editorial Boards

• ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC), 2013-2014
• ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2003-2012.
• IEEE/TCCA Computer Architecture Letters, 2001-2010.
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1994-1997.

Miscellaneous

• Supported BSD release of The gem5 Simulation Infrastructure.
• Supported GPL release of Wisconsin Multifacet's General Execution-driven Multiprocessor Simulator (GEMS).
• Co-developed WWW Computer Architecture Page.