Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 2010
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2019
  • Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2012 - 2017
  • Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2017
  • Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2012
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • OCT 15, 2015

    Pratt-Honored Professor on Teaching Programming Before Coding in the Classroom
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • SHF: Small: Game-Theoretic Foundations for Task Co-Location awarded by  National Science Foundation 2015 - 2020
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Hilton, A., S. Nagarakatte, and A. Roth. “ICFP: Tolerating all-level cache misses in in-order processors.” Ieee Micro 30, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 12–19. https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2010.20.
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    • Hilton, A., and A. Roth. “SMT-directory: Efficient load-load ordering for SMT.” Ieee Computer Architecture Letters 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 25–28. https://doi.org/10.1109/L-CA.2010.8.
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    • Battle, S., A. D. Hilton, M. Hempstead, and A. Roth. “"Flexible register management using reference counting.",” n.d., 273–84.

  • Other Articles

    • Lehman, T. S., A. D. Hilton, and B. C. Lee. “PoisonIvy: Safe speculation for secure memory.” Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Micro, December 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.2016.7783741.
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    • Huang, Z., A. D. Hilton, and B. C. Lee. “Decoupling Loads for Nano-Instruction Set Computers.” Proceedings  2016 43rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Isca 2016, August 24, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.2016.43.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Huang, Z., J. A. Joao, A. Rico, A. D. Hilton, and B. C. Lee. “DynaSprint: Microarchitectural sprints with dynamic utility and thermal management.” In Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Micro, 426–39, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3352460.3358301.
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    • Hilton, A. D., G. M. Lipp, and S. H. Rodger. “Translation from Problem to Code in Seven Steps.” In Comped 2019  Proceedings of the Acm Conference on Global Computing Education, 78–84, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3300115.3309508.
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    • Hilton, A. D., G. M. Lipp, and S. H. Rodger. “A technique for translation from problem to code.” In Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Iticse, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3197091.3205807.
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    • Lehman, T. S., A. D. Hilton, and B. C. Lee. “MAPS: Understanding Metadata Access Patterns in Secure Memory.” In Proceedings  2018 Ieee International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, Ispass 2018, 33–43, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPASS.2018.00012.
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    • Jacobvitz, A. N., A. D. Hilton, and D. J. Sorin. “Multi-program benchmark definition.” In Ispass 2015  Ieee International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 72–82, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPASS.2015.7095786.
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    • Battle, S., A. D. Hilton, M. Hempstead, and A. Roth. “Flexible register management using reference counting.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 273–84, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA.2012.6169033.
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    • Hilton, A., and A. Roth. “BOLT: Energy-efficient out-of-order latency-tolerant execution.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 2010.
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    • Hilton, A., and A. Roth. “Decoupled store completion/silent deterministic replay: Enabling scalable data memory for CPR/CFP processors.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 245–54, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1145/1555754.1555786.
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    • Hilton, A., N. Eswaran, and A. Roth. “CPROB: Checkpoint processing with opportunistic minimal recovery.” In Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques  Conference Proceedings, Pact, 159–68, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1109/PACT.2009.42.
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    • Hilton, A., S. Nagarakatte, and A. Roth. “Icfp: tolerating all-level cache misses in in-order processors.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 431–42, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA.2009.4798281.
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    • Hilton, A. D., and A. Roth. “Ginger: Control independence using tag rewriting.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 436–47, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1145/1250662.1250716.
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    • Abbasi, H., M. Wolf, K. Schwan, G. Eisenhauer, and A. Hilton. “XChange: Coupling parallel applications in a dynamic environment.” In Proceedings  Ieee International Conference on Cluster Computing, Iccc, 471–80, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLUSTR.2004.1392646.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • COMPSCI 553: Compiler Construction 2020
  • ECE 553: Compiler Construction 2020
  • ECE 651: Software Engineering 2020
  • ECE 891: Internship 2020
  • ECE 551D: Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms in C++ 2019
  • ECE 751D: Advanced Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms in C++ 2019
  • ECE 494: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2018
  • ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2018
  • ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering 2018

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