Unfortunately, it has also served to discourage new ideas. Once again, the format will consist of 8 minute talks on new ideas in computer architecture. Instead, speakers will have to convince the audience that their forward-looking idea is good in other ways.
Simple numbers are ok, but insight is far more important than completeness.
Of course, this session can only be as good as the submissions. Thus, success of this session depends crucially on you, the computer architecture community. Anyone can submit, but only serious submissions, please. Also, the set of abstracts will be printed together and made available to attendees.