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Intel® Black Belt Software Developers
Intel® Black Belt Software Developers are members of our communities known for their technical expertise, for sharing knowledge and for collaborating to make our communities stronger. This is our new title designed to recognize and reward these members for contributing their experience and expertise to the communities. This title also recognizes members for their time and effort to help make Intel Software Network a valuable developer resource. Read more here...
Raf Schietekat currently works in Brussels, Belgium. After doing some document processing using SGML (from which XML was derived), Raf got interested in CORBA and wrote and commercially used his own implementation. Generally, he enjoys exploring various programming technologies in different environments, including finance and now aviation. Raf contributed several proposals to Intel Threading Building Blocks, ranging from a new concurrent_hash_map version to enhanced atomics features and portability.
Top Community Masterminds
Michael Trofimov is involved in scientific research on a range of subjects including mathematics, computer science, fundamental algorithms & applications, computational complexity, programming languages design & implementations, AI, GUI, multimedia, visual programming, optimization and code generation. Michael has about 100 publications to his credit. His work has been published by J. of Mathematical Chemistry, J. of Pascal, Ada & Modula-2, Byte, First Class by OMG.
Contest Champions
Tommy Refenes, First place winner of Best Threaded Game in the 2008 Game Demo Contest is was born June 14th, 1981 in Hendersonville, North Carolina. At the age of 11, Tommy's parents bought him a "laptop" which weighed about 30lbs and it was on this computer Tommy started coding in QBasic and became interested in developing games. Throughout high school, Tommy took a few classes in Pascal and C++, which further grew his interest in programming. While attending NC State, Tommy took contract jobs for a few large .com companies and eventually left the university early to pursue a career in software development. After holding a few web and sever development jobs, Tommy decided to sell his house and car and move to the Netherlands to start work at a company as an Xbox 360 engine programmer. In May 2006 Tommy moved back to the US, founded PillowFort and begin work on Goo!, his winning entry in the contest.
Intel® Black Belts (Academic Community)
Dr. Richard (Dick) Brown Dr. Brown has been an active member of the Intel Academic Community for 3 years. He was one of the first members to take advantage of the Intel® Manycore Testing Lab (MTL). He shared his experience with the whole community in A First Look at the Manycore Testing Lab His feedback was instrumental in helping to validate the MTL usage model. Professor Brown has been a regular participant in the Intel Academic Community booth at conferences such as SIGCSE.
Professor Jose Villeta After joining the Intel Academic Community and reviewing the Multi-Core Courseware content, he started to investigate ways to integrate his knowledge of parallelism into his courses at University of Southern California. Now, he has several courses in both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments that showcase the importance of Parallelism and Multi-Core threading. His EE/CSCI-452 Game Hardware Architectures course integrates content from the Introduction to Parallel Programming, Game Threading Methodologies and Parallel Architecture for Games [from the Intel Courseware Access Moodle] and Intel tools like the C/C++ Compiler, Intel® Threading Building Blocks, VTune™ Performance Analyzer and Intel® Thread Profiler. In addition, students have the opportunity to use Intel Smoke Demo as an example of a game engine architecture that takes advantage of parallelism. This course is offered to both Undergraduate and Graduate students from the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at the Viterbi School of Engineering.
Dr. Jianfeng Yang His leadership has been instrumental in helping Intel integrate parallel programming into universities in China. He is an associate professor of Electronic Information College of Wuhan University and the leader of the Multi-core Curriculum, embedded system design curriculum of Wuhan University and of the Wuhan University-Intel Multicore Technology joint lab. Dr. Yang led a webinar, The Multi-core Computer Science Curriculum in the People's Republic of China, for the Intel Academic Community's 2008 Webinar series, Sequential programming is no more - why are we still teaching it?
Dr. Matthew Wolf is a member of the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Tech. His position is as a Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science of the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as being a joint appointment with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His background in Mathematics and computational Physics as well as High Performance Computing shapes much of his research interest. His research targets high performance, scalable applications, particularly focused on I/O and adaptive event middlewares. His work has been sponsored by NSF, DoE, Oak Ridge, Intel, HP, and Cisco, among others.
Black Belt Intel Employees
These Intel employees are outstanding members of our communities. We appreciate the time and effort they spend supporting communities, solving issues, contributing content, authoring blogs and creating a vibrant environment to share knowledge and expertise.
