• A Research Mindset

• A Research Mindset

• Better Computing Culture = More Innovation

• Measuring and Optimizing Tail Latency

• How to Stop Driving Women Out of Computing: What Happens in Your Backyard Matters

• What Programming Researchers Do and How to Become One

• Networking: Building Your Research Village

• Research is a Social Process & What Progamming Languages Researchers Do and How

Strange Loop 2017 Keynote.

• Measuring and Optimizing Tail Latency

Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop at PLDI (PLMW PLDI), 2017.

• Classic, Hot, and Unrecognized Programming Language Research Topics

HiPEAC 2017 Keynote.

• Tail Latency: Beyond Queuing Theory

Press on datacenters that share. Our USENIX ACT 2016 paper exploits Simultaneous Multithreading to improve datacenter utilization without degrading tail latency of interactive workloads.

• Data centres could cut power consumption by 25 per cent with simutaneous multithreading, V3, July 6, 2016.
• A Fairytale helped researchers make data centres more efficient, Gizmodo, July 6, 2016.
• Major energy savings when computers learn to share, ANU Press release, July 5, 2016.

POPL, ASPLOS, and HCSS Keynotes 2016.

• Programming Uncertain <T>hings

VEE 2016 Keynote.

• Next Generation Virtual Memory

Distinguished Lecture at Rice University, October 2014, Simon Fraser University, January 2015, & The University of Utah, October 2015.

• Uncertain <T>: Programming with Estimates

Keynote at OOPSLA 2013, CATS 2013, & Grace Hopper 2014

• The Yin and Yang of Hardware Heterogeneity: Can Software Survive?

Testimony To House Science Committee

On February 14, 2013, Kathryn McKinley on behalf of Microsoft testified along with Ed Lazowska (UW) and Kelly Gaither (Texas Advanced Computing Center) to the House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Research and Science Education on the topic of innovation in information technology. Her testimony focused on (1) the academic, industry, and government ecosystem that is driving innovations in the IT sector; (2) the need for investment in key research areas such as big data, privacy, secure systems and computing performance; and (3) increasing diversity to meet computing workforce needs and drive innovation.

• Video
  
• A transcript of McKinley's oral testimony
  
• A transcript of McKinley's written testimony
  

Press on Testimony

• GeekWire
  
• UT computer science professors tell Congress innovation depends on investments in basic research, Houston Chronicle, February 15, 2013.
  
• UT Press Release
  
• Computing Research Policy Blog
  
• Computing Community Consortium Blog
  
• Subcommittee Discusses the NITRD Program, Science Committee Democrats, February 14, 2013.
  
• Inside Microsoft Research
  

Press on our power measurement work.

• Researchers Corral Chip Power-Performance Requirements, January 30, 2012. CACM.
• Toward Lowering the Power Consumption of Microprocessors, January 20, 2012. UT Press.
• ANU research paves way for energy efficient devices, February 21, 2012. The Australian.
• Energy Efficient Computer Systems: The Infleunce of the Software Layer is Paramount, is written in French, "Efficience Energetique des systemes informatiques: l'influence de la couche logicielle est primordiale." February 17 2012.
• Read the paper
  Looking Back on the Language and Hardware Revolutions: Measured Power, Performance, and Scaling, H. Esmaeilzadeh, T. Cao, X. Yang, S. M. Blackburn, and K. S. McKinley, The ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Newport Beach, CA, pp. 319--332, March 2011. [DATA: the power and performance data]