Experiences and Lessons from A Virtual Program Committee Meeting

摘要

MICRO 2020 is one of the earliest large conferences that experienced the full course of the pandemic starting from the lockdown order throughout the entire US. The submission deadline was pushed back due to the abrupt changes in normality. This helped authors to prepare strong manuscripts for MICRO. We received a record number of submissions, which put significant pressure on the review process. Fortunately, we decided early to commit to a virtual program committee meeting, which allowed us to form a large program committee to spread the load. However, a large committee comes with its own set of challenges, including that of running a virtual meeting with 100 participants spanning numerous time zones. We used Zoom as our conferencing so smooth and productive meeting. We describe the mechanics and organization we used below and make some recommendations for future meetings.