Message from the ASAP 2016 chairs

We welcome you to the 27th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2016). This year's event takes place in London, United Kingdom on the campus of the Imperial College London. Prior to this year's visit to London, the conference has been held in many places around the globe including Oxford (1986), San Diego (1988), Killarney (1989), Princeton (1990), Barcelona (1991), Berkeley (1992), Venice (1993), San Francisco (1994), Strasbourg (1995), Chicago (1996), Zurich (1997), Boston (2000), San Jose (2002), The Hague (2003), Galveston (2004), Samos (2005), Steamboat Springs (2006), Montreal (2007), Leuven (2008), Boston (2009), Rennes (2010), Santa Monica (2011), Delft (2012), and Washington, D.C (2013), Zurich (2014), and Toronto (2015). Though this is the 27th iteration of ASAP, it is actually the 30 year anniversary of the first conference in Oxford.