Micro-21 from the chair

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To the members of SigMicro: I have been asked by the Newsletter Editor, Vicki Allan, if I wanted to comment on Micro 21. I guess I'd much rather hear what others have to say. On the other hand, I do want to report that it was a privilege to take my turn as your Workshop Chairman, and I wish Gerry and others success in the years ahead with Micro n, as we continue to increase n. As I did at the Workshop itself, I want to again express my thanks to Rich Belgard and Wen-mei Hwu for taking on such a large part of the job. In the case of Rich, it was yet another Micro n that he put his own personal good stamp on. In the case of Wen-mei, it was the kind of thorough first rate job that I have become used to seeing him do. I eagerly look forward to the Micro n Workshop that we convince him to lead as General Chairman. For those of you concerned about such things, we made a bunch of money, enough to subsidize mailing the Proceedings to the SigMI-CRO membership and still report a substantial profit to our co-sponsors, IEEE and ACM. Now, we look forward to Micro 22. Gerry Johnson has carved out an exciting first for us in organizing it in Dublin. The interest in Microprogramming and Microarchitecture in general and the quality of the technical interaction at the Workshop in particular continue to grow. In addition, the wonder of the country , from Galway to Donegal to the Antrim coast, is not to be missed. So, for both professional technical reasons and for personal enrichment reasons, I encourage you to plan on spending part of August in Dublin at Micro 22. Finally, I would urge the subsequent Workshop Chairmen to keep in mind the sentiment of the attendees at Micro 21, as expressed in our much-too-long meeting on Thursday night of the Workshop , that we wish to continue the co-sponsorship of the workshop by both professional societies (IEEE and ACM). As was pointed out so eloquently by me, each society contributes to our professional needs in different and complementary ways, and we are fortunate to be able to enjoy both and not have to choose between the two.