Steve kicked off the first Workshop on Near Data Processing (WoNDP) with a key note address describing a programmable SSD platform. The workshop was held as part of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-46) in Sacramento, California. Over 40 researchers from academia and industry gathered to discuss the latest trends in combining compute resources with data storage. Hung Wei presented a paper at the workshop as well.