michaela blott – Observations from Uppsala

The HiPEAC 2026 Conference

Last week, I gave a keynote at the RAPIDO workshop, part of the HiPEAC 2026 conference taking place in Kraków, Poland. HiPEAC is a computer architecture conference with a rather wild-grown set of simultaneous workshops in addition to a main-stage paper program. It is an event for presenting research, EU projects, and for companies to recruit highly qualified people. I had a rather interesting time getting to the conference, a story told in a separate blog post.

DAC 2025 – All About AI

The 62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC 62) took place in San Francisco, California, USA, from June 22 to 25, 2025. It was the first time in three years that I attended the DAC (this blog is a little bit late, sorry for that). For those that do not know, the DAC is the biggest show in EDA, combining a major research conference with an industry exhibition and engineering track. This year the theme was AI (Artificial Intelligence), and not much else.