Intel Academic Community Bulletin

Subject: Intel® Academic Community News- March 13th 2009

SIGCSE has just wrapped up; it was great to have the chance to discuss the Academic Community Program and new possibilities for collaboration with members in person. One professor from a small college in South Carolina was looking for resources for an exceptional student working on a thesis around Parallelism, the Chair of a Computer Science department from a large Canadian University is debating how to augment their program for core CS classes, and scores of faculty members came to tell us about their efforts to bring Parallel computing courseware into the classroom. Folks were excited to be on the cutting edge of "Parallel Computing as normal" and everywhere people were proudly wearing their "Think Parallel" badges.

What are you doing to bring Parallelism into the classroom? What can Intel do to help? Let us know in our forum and we'll send you a "Think Parallel" thank you*!

In this Bulletin:

Academic Community Passes 1,000 University Milestone

Leadership in Academia Award

Wu-Han University Case Study

Level Up 2009, Intel® Visual Adrenaline Game Demo Challenge

Intel Labs Europe

Events

Intel Academic Community Connects Professors at 1,000 Universities

Over 1,000 universities in 72 countries have joined the Academic Community Program. Find out more about this impressive milestone, hear what members are saying, and share your own story online.

Leadership in Academia Award

Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Wolf, the first recipient of the Leadership in Academia Award. Dr. Wolf was presented the award at the SIGCSE symposium in honor of his many contributions in the field of Computer Science and specifically to the advancement of a Parallel Computing Curriculum.

Wuhan University Case Study

In close cooperation with Intel, Wuhan University has trained more than 1,000 undergraduate students through the Wuhan University-Intel Embedded Technology Lab and the Wuhan University-Intel Multi-core Technology Lab. Learn more about these programs and the amazing achievements garnered from this partnership.

2009 Game Demo Challenge Launches in March

Starting March 23, 2009, Level Up 2009 - the Intel® Visual Adrenaline Game Demo Challenge will begin accepting submissions from professional, aspiring and student game developers. Tell your aspiring students to visit www.intel.com/software for more information or see last year's winners and play with the winning game demos!

Intel Labs Europe

Intel announced the formation of Intel Labs Europe to drive a closer collaboration with European researchers and policy makers on EU initiatives. ILE is exploring new research programs with institutions like the University of Saarland. If you have a great project idea around visual computing, software development, enterprise solutions, green computing, advanced microprocessor research or high performance computing, be sure to send it along!

EVENTS

Multi-Core Programming Instructor-Led Training

The new version of our Multi-Core Programming Instructor-Led Training & Threading Games for Performance content launched at Stuttgart University and was a great success! If you're interesting in preparing your students for this new technology, find out more about the upcoming Cardiff University, UK, training and request new trainings by contacting EMEA Manager Stephanie Brumat.

Eurographics - March 30 through April 3, 2009 in Munich, Germany

Visit Academic Community members at Eurographics 2009. Intel expert, Matt Pharr will speak on "Software Rendering Redux: Back to the Future with New Graphics Architectures" and you'll have a chance to see Ray Tracing, Smoke, and a Parallel Studio demos at the booth! Hope to meet you there! Get more information here.

Wolfgang Rosenberg

Intel Academic Community Manager

www.intel.com/software/academic