Academic Testimonials

"ETH Computer Science students must take a class on parallel programming in their first year. We want them to encounter the issue of concurrent execution early on in their education, before a sequential mindset has conquered their heads.
Writing parallel programs is hard work -- like writing sequential programs. But it's also a lot of fun, if can add exposure to parallel programming in the first year, it lets students understand (some of) the problems that everyone in the community must deal with . . ."
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Associate Professor Emil Slusanschi, Ph.D. University Politehnica of Bucharest, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Professor Jose Villeta, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California

"Undergraduate education is typically light on threading and scheduling, especially when it gets down to the nuts and bolts of coding for multithreaded programs. The addition of multi-core environments into the mix is amplifying this shortcoming in undergraduate programs. I have worked directly with Intel engineers to tailor curriculum to my undergraduate students in a way that will captivate their interest and...."

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James N. Long, Associate Professor, CSET Department
Oregon Institute of Technology

"Our Faculty of Computer and Information Technology here at Jordan Univ. of Science and Technology is delighted to be recognized for joining the Intel Academic Community program. As a leading university in the region, we feel it is important to continuously give our students cutting edge development curriculum to prepare them for the future. We plan to utilize software development tools from Intel in our curriculum. We also believe that it is important for our professors to learn from industry experts which will make our parallel programming and visual computing curriculum best in class."

Dr. Mazen Kharbutli Assistant Professor
Jordan University of Science and Technology

"In our challenge to make multicore software engineering more accessible to average programmers, Intel's hands-on teaching material is of great help."

Dr. Victor Pankratius; Head of Young Investigator Group on Multicore Software Engineering
University of Karlsruhe, Germany

"....Undoubtedly presentations in ISC training are valuable. All subjects are topical and may be integrated into university courses. Materials may be used in part or completely after more or less essential improvement...."

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Sergey Nemnyugin

"There is no doubt that Intel the Multi-core Curriculum Initiative is really an interesting and useful project. Russian Universities have a real need in getting support from IT companies in areas like Computer Science and modern technologies."

"The ISC training session left a very positive impression. I liked the educational materials, their presentation and the organization of the training. I already plan to implement components from this training in existing educational courses at my university in order to enhance these courses. I consider that the Intel Multi-core Curriculum Initiative program brings significant benefits to Russian educational system."

Tatyana Kosovtseva; senior lecturer, Informatics department
Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute

"There is no doubt that the Intel Multi-core Curriculum Initiative brings benefits to Russian educational system. Unfortunately, university faculties donÂ’t have enough time to develop themselves and improve their professional competence in the areas of programming and new computer architectures development. I plan to introduce new knowledge IÂ’ve got on training into already existing educational courses. I consider that this program and Academic Community as well assist faculties in the establishment of collaboration between universities."

Nadezhda Sattarova; senior lecturer, Informatics department
Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute

"In my opinion, the Intel Multi-core Curriculum Initiative program is very interesting and unconditionally essential for further IT development not only in Russia but in the whole world as well. The training has enabled me to teach parallel programming far more effective, based on real code examples. I plan to introduce the new material for Windows and Linux OS starting next year."

Efimov Vyacheslav; senior lecturer, department of informational and control systems
The Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications

"The Intel Multi-core Curriculum Initiative program stimulates faculties for modification of already existing educational courses and even for development of the new ones. Thus, students have a possibility to get new knowledge. This program also facilitates the collaborations between universities and helps faculties to work jointly on common scientific interests areas."

Mirolubov Alexander; laboratory assistant, department of informational systems and technologies
The Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications

"From my perspective, the Intel Multi-core Curriculum Initiative Program is a part of the common HPC paradigm. I am in agreement that such trainings are very useful for Academia. For me and my faculty it would be more productive, if Intel Fortran would be added to the course."

Yury Sokhor; senior lecturer, department of electric drive and automation systems
Pskov State Polytechnic University

“"The change to multi-core means a re-emphasis on concurrency and parallelism… It's an interesting challenge for us to educate students in that direction. Whether they build gaming applications, vision applications, robotics applications or traditional applications in the high performance domain, they have to always think parallel. That renewed emphasis in understanding parallelism is important to impart to our students.”
Professor Karsten Schwan
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology." September 2006

"The Multi-core Programming for Academia Course offered by [the Intel Academic Community] provides a hands-on introduction to Intel's threading methodologies, tools and techniques for developing highly optimized threaded applications exploiting the advantages of multi-core platforms to their full potential."