Though and Opinions from London Computer Conferences 2019
Introduction Computing Conference (formerly called Science and Information (SAI) Conference) is a research conference held in London, the UK since 2013. The conference series has featured keynote talks, special sessions, poster presentation, tutorials, workshops, and contributed papers each year. This year the event happened on the 16th to 17th July. This blog post will aim to show some of the ideas and research that was presented and how they might apply to the standards work that I observed. Day 1 Keynote Talks The first keynote talk was about the rise of accelerators in computing. The requirement for specialist chips because general-purpose chip designs have plateaued or are at there limit when it comes to speed increases and die shrinkage. There is now a move for greater energy efficiency in chip designs are becoming more important. Part of this solution is decreased memory/data latency when fetching that information and processing it. Already, for key applications, greater