Keynotes Announcement

Eren Kurshan, Princeton University, USA

Bio

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Dr. Eren Kurshan is an AI researcher and technology executive focused on building AI systems for large-scale industrial use cases. She has been leading corporate research, innovation, AI/ML programs at Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America and IBM T.J. Watson Research Labs. Her research interests span the full AI system stack from the chip design to large scale mission critical AI systems. Kurshan received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as a Master's in Computer Science and a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering. She holds 276 U.S. Patents and received the Inventor of the Year Award from New York Intellectual Property and Law Association for the societal impact of her inventions. Dr. Kurshan is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM.

Title: Making or Breaking AI: Grand Challenges, Opportunities and What We Might be Missing.

Lana Josipović, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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Lana Josipović is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich. Prior to joining ETH Zurich in 2022, she received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL. Her research interests include reconfigurable computing and electronic design automation. She is a recipient of various research awards, including the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, EPFL Doctorate Award, Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Systems and Networking, and Best Paper Awards at ISFPGA’20 and FPL’24. She is an Associate Editor for IEEE TCAD, ACM TRETS, and ACM TODAES, and served as general, program, and topic chair of several international conferences and workshops, including IWLS, FCCM, FPL, DAC, and DATE.

Title: Bridging the gap between software and hardware.

Call For Papers

The 23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'26) will take place May 19th-21th, 2026 in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Participation is in-person only.

Computing Frontiers (CF) is an eclectic, interdisciplinary, collaborative community of researchers investigating emerging technologies in the broad field of computing: our common goal is to drive the scientific breakthroughs that support society.

CF's broad scope is driven by recent technological advances in wide-ranging fields impacting computing, such as novel computing models and paradigms, advancements in hardware, network and systems architecture, cloud computing, novel device physics and materials, new application domains of artificial intelligence, big data analytics, wearables, and IoT. The boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the advancing frontiers of science, engineering, and information technology — and are the CF community's focus. CF provides a venue to share, discuss, and advance broad, forward-thinking, early research on the future of computing and welcomes work on a wide spectrum of computer systems, from embedded and hand-held/wearable devices to supercomputers and data centers.

Topics of Interest

We seek original research contributions at the frontiers of a wide range of topics, including novel computational models and algorithms, new application paradigms, computer architecture (from embedded to HPC systems), computing hardware, memory technologies, networks, storage solutions, compilers, and runtime environments.

• Hardware Frontiers
  • Emerging processor architectures, accelerators and memory systems
  • Post-exascale high-performance computing
  • Quantum computing systems, runtimes, algorithms and applications
  • Post-Moore's Law Systems: Neuromorphic, biologically-inspired, superconducting, and hyperdimensional computing
• Distributed Systems and Networking Frontiers
  • Multi and Hybrid Cloud computing, and challenges
  • IoT, CPS, edge and embedded computing systems
  • Breakthroughs in edge-cloud continuum, satellite computing
  • Sensor networks and wearable computing
• System Software and Runtime Frontiers
  • Virtualization and containerization
  • Platforms for workflows and distributed progamming
  • Compilers and optimizations for heterogeneous systems
  • Big data platforms and analytics
• AI for Systems and Systems for AI
  • Distributed AI and federated learning
  • System design for efficient AI
  • AI for system optimizations
  • Agentic AI and AIOps
• Cutting-edge Developments in Computing for Society and Emerging Applications
  • AI ethics: Privacy, sustainability, biases
  • Emerging applications in education, health, smart cities and emerging markets
• Pushing the Boundaries of Cross-cutting Computing Challenges
  • Designing for scale and performance
  • Energy efficiency and sustainability
  • Security and privacy, impact of quantum and AI
  • Reliability, resiliency and dependability
  • Algorithmic innovations
  • Benchmarking, performance analysis and modeling

We strongly encourage submissions in other emerging fields of computing, and welcome submissions that propose new directions of research and out-of-the-box solutions for grand computing challenges. If in doubt whether your work fits in Computing Frontiers please contact the program co-chairs.

Important Dates

All deadlines are AoE.

Submission

Papers must be submitted through: https://cf26.hotcrp.com/

We encourage the submission of both full papers and short papers containing high-quality research describing original, unpublished work.

• Full papers are expected to provide well-rounded contributions, where novelty, originality, and sufficient preliminary evaluation are included. Length: maximum of eight (8) pages (excluding references).
• Short papers may be position papers or may describe preliminary or highly speculative work. Length: maximum of four (4) pages (including references).

All papers should use the double-column ACM conference format. Page limits include figures, tables and appendices. Authors may buy up to two (2) extra pages for accepted full papers, bringing the total length to a maximum of ten (10) pages (excluding references).

As the review process is double-blind, the removal of all identifying information from paper submissions is required (e.g., cite own (previous) work in the third person, avoid references to machines and/or systems that can identify the paper authors, etc.).

Papers not conforming to the above submission policies on formatting, page limits, and the removal of identifying information, are likely to be automatically rejected. Authors are strongly advised to submit their papers with the final list of authors in the submission system, as changes may not be feasible at later stages (due to publisher restrictions).

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research. If the submission extends from a prior short paper, there should be substantial new content and intellectual contribution, and this should be clearly mentioned. Concurrent submission of the same paper to any other conference or journal is not permitted. While authors may post a draft of their paper on arXiv or as a technical report on their institution's website, they should take care to use a sufficiently different title and name for their system to ensure the anonymity of the submission.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

As per ACM Publications Policies, any use of artificial intelligence (AI) generated content in a paper must be clearly disclosed in the acknowledgements section of the submission. The authors are responsible for the correctness of any generated material. The authors also attest that the submitted paper accurately represents their own novel intellectual contributions, and is not primarily the result of the tool's generative capabilities.

Registration and No-show policy

At least one full registration is required from a submission author for each accepted paper and all accepted papers are expected to be presented in person at the conference. If circumstances arise such that authors are unable to present their papers at the conference, they must contact the PC co-chairs with a proposal for a replacement presenter. A no-show will result in exclusion from the ACM digital library proceedings.

Important update on ACMs new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences!

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%). Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.

Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:

• $250 APC for ACM/SIG members
• $350 for non-members

This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.

Call for Artifact Evaluation and Disclaimer

The CF’26 Organizing Committee strongly encourages authors on a voluntary basis to present the Artifact Evaluation (AE) documentation to support their scientific results. The Artifact Evaluation is run by a different committee after the acceptance of the paper and does not affect the paper evaluation itself.

Authors may submit the artifact during the submission period or after the notification. To arrange the necessary computing resources, authors are invited to flag the option during the paper registration if they are willing to participate in the evaluation. This is particularly true for artifacts that would require strict or non-common hardware setups. Authors are encouraged, but not required, to include the AE appendix in the paper at the time of submission. Note that the AE appendix does not count toward the page limit.

Artifact Preparation

CF’26 adopts the ACM Artifact Review and Badging (Version 1.1 - August 24, 2020). By "artifact", we mean a digital object that was either created by the authors to be used as part of the study or generated by the experiment itself. Typical artifacts may include system descriptions or scripts to install the environment or reproduce specific experiments. Authors are invited to include a one-page appendix to the main paper (after the references). The appendix does not count toward the page limit.

To prepare the Appendix and avoid common mistakes, authors may refer to the following guide:
https://ctuning.org/ae/checklist.html

A Latex template can be found at the following link:
https://github.com/ctuning/artifact-evaluation/blob/master/docs/template/ae.tex.

Artifact Review Process

The Artifact Evaluation Committee will reproduce the paper by following the instructions included in the appendix and verify ACM roles for assigned badges. For example, in order to have a paper with an Artifact Available badge, the code and data should be stored in a permanent archive with a DOI or another unique identifier.

Authors may be invited by the AE Committee to revise their instructions according to their feedback. At the end of the process, the AE Committee will recommend one or more badges to assign to the paper among those supported by the ACM reproducibility policy.

Special Issue Opportunity

A Special Issue for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) is under evaluation. If finally approved, highly ranked papers from the conference will be invited to submit their extended article by August, 2026. Details to come with final approval.

Camera-Ready Instructions

Soon after acceptance notification, authors will receive an email from ACM requesting to fill in a copyright form. After that, authors will obtain the copyright statement (i.e., copyright strip/DOI/ISBN) to be inserted on the first page of the paper. Make sure to use exactly the same information in the camera-ready PDF, including the same title of paper, author list (names/ affiliation/ e-mail address) as specified in the original paper version submitted for review. Please ensure that co-authors obtain an ORCID ID so that the copyright process can be completed smoothly.

Please walk through the following checklist for preparing the camera-ready paper. This helps to have a smoother submission in TAPS by having less chance of running into validation errors:

• The template to use for the camera-ready version of the paper is the double-column ACM conference format: Proceedings Template. If the LaTeX template is used, ensure that the first line of the source file is \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}.
• If the LaTeX template is used, please make sure to ONLY use TAPS-accepted Latex Packages.
• Authors must apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. The templates provide space for this indexing and point authors to the Computing Classification Scheme at HERE.
• Do not include page numbers.
• The author list must include names, affiliations (institute, city, country), and email addresses for all authors.
• Make sure that the paper title and author names / affiliations / emails match exactly the information provided in the ACM copyright form.
• CCS (Computing Classification Scheme), keywords, and ACM reference format must be present.
• The copyright block may not be omitted.
• Make sure to include the copyright statement (i.e., copyright strip/DOI/ISBN) on the first page of the paper.
• The PDF may only contain Type 1 fonts, not Type 3.
• All fonts must be embedded within the PDF file.
• Libertine must be used as the main font.
• Check that running page headers show abbreviated title / authors.
• Check that figure captions are below figures and table captions above tables.
• Make sure to have a README file in the sources (packaged as ZIP), including directions on how to generate the PDF from sources.
• Make sure that at least one author is registered for the conference, at latest, by camera-ready submission due. If the PDF uses extra pages (only full papers), this registration must include payment for the extra pages.

We are using the ACM Production System (or TAPS) for the camera-ready submissions. This system assists authors in preparing and submitting the camera-ready version of the paper. Within a few hours after completing the copyright form (as instructed earlier), authors will receive an email from ACM TAPS, including links for submitting the camera-ready version of the paper.

That link redirects the authors to the ACM Author Dashboard, where detailed instructions on how to structure the article source material (e.g., in a ZIP file with a certain structure and name). ACM Author Dashboard also includes an upload field for submission of the sources and the paper. TAPS also runs a few checks after uploading the sources to assess their validity. Also, TAPS provides a contact support field in the Author Dashboard to facilitate discussions (e.g, in case TAPS reports validation errors for the submitted sources).

The TAPS workflow for camera-ready submission can be summed up in a few steps:

• Prepare source material according to the above checklist - the Word or LaTeX source document(s), and any supplementary material authors wish to have distributed alongside the article in the Digital Library.
• Organize the article source material into a ZIP file according to the instructions in ACM Author Dashboard. The zip file for upload must be named as follows: proceedings_acronym-paper_id.zip (e.g., cf26-44.zip). Note that the paper_id used here is different from the ID assigned to the paper in HotCRP when submitted. This paper_id is assigned by the ACM systems for preparing the proceedings and is shown on top of the ACM Author Dashboard page.
• Upload that ZIP file to TAPS.
• Upload the supplementary materials as per organizer instructions.
• If the source was successfully processed, review the generated PDF and HTML5 documents. If validation errors occur, revise the source and resubmit to TAPS.
• Approve the article in TAPS for publication when all errors are resolved.

More information about TAPS can be found HERE. If you have any issues during this process, please contact the Proceedings Chairs at - Please enable JS -.