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  • Oct
    3

    CS Student Seminar: Tommy McMichen

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM

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    Tuesday 3rd October 2023
    Mudd 3514

    Speaker
    Tommy McMichen

    Title
    Breaking a Vase and Putting it Back Together: The Folly of Premature Optimization

    Abstract
    At a high level, compilers are presented with the problem of taking the description of a program and automatically translating it to execute on a given system. In this process, modern compilers are obliged to optimize the given program, improving upon the developer's description, and more efficiently utilizing available hardware resources. Fully realizing the capabilities of increasingly complex, modern computer systems entails increasingly large-scale restructuring of the program. To achieve this, compilers rely upon intermediate representations, which present the program to the compiler in a form amenable to analysis, granting powerful degrees of freedom with which it can perform said restructuring. In this talk, I will go over a brief history of compilers and the intermediate representations they employ, discuss the challenges facing today's compilers, and present my work on representing programs in a way that removes ambiguity, allowing for the analysis and optimization of general purpose data collections within a program.

    Biography
    Tommy is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate studying Computer Systems, specifically Compilers, with Prof. Simone Campanoni in the ARCANA Lab. Tommy's focus lies in intermediate program representation design, enabling new static analyses and broadening the compiler's optimization space, specifically for memory usage and layout.

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    TIME Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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    CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Sep
    8

    Welcome & Breakfast for New McCormick PhD Students

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    9:00 AM LR2 & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute

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    TIME Monday, September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

    LOCATION LR2 & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute    map it

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    CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Sep
    12

    New Undergraduate Fall 2025 Registration

    University Academic Calendar

    All Day

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    TIME Friday, September 12, 2025

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    CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Sep
    15

    Welcome & Luncheon for New Full-time Graduate Students

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    11:00 AM Ryan Auditorium & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute

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    TIME Monday, September 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

    LOCATION Ryan Auditorium & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute    map it

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    CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Sep
    16

    Fall Classes Begin. Change of Registration (Drop/Add) Late registration for returning students begins

    University Academic Calendar

    All Day

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    TIME Tuesday, September 16, 2025

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    CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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