Intel Software Network at Supercomputing 09!
Please Join Intel and the Intel Academic Community at Supercomputing 09 in Portland Oregon. We are sponsoring keynotes, talks, sessions.  The Intel Academic community representatives can be found in the afternoons at the SC Education booth where we will be broadcasting live the 'Think Parallel' on ISN TV.  You can find an entire schedule of events here. 

IEE IV 2009 Freiburg, Germany

Intel sponsored the IEE IV which is taking place in Freiburg, Germany on November 5-6.  Mark Guzdial,  Georgia Tech presented the opening speech at the conference, presenting the results of changing the context of the CS1 courses in order to improve the rate of failure and number of students enrolled.  Check out the programme here.


ACM and Partners Applaud "National Computer Science Education Week" to Advance Computing's Role in Preparing Skilled Workers and Creating Career Opportunities

ACM is partnering with Microsoft, Google, Inc., and Intel as well as the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), and the Computing Research Association (CRA) to build awareness of computer science education as a national priority.   Congress responded this week by declaring that week of December 7th is 'National Computer Education Week',  read about it here

ECSS and ACM

This year, 80 of the leading CS faculties, department chairs research institutes in Europe gathered in a humid Paris for the European Computer Science conference to delve into the new role Informatics should play among the sciences. Put forward this year was the need for a multidisciplinary approach uniting research, curricula as well as education.  Check out the blogs here

Software Engineering for Parallel Systems (SEPARS)

 The goal of both Intel Academic Community and SEPARS is to provide to faculty content and curriculum to teach parallel programming. By working together, SEPARS and Intel Academic Community help more engineers get up to speed on parallel programming.

SEPARS held the second International Workshop on Multi-core Engineering (IWMSE 09) as a workshop co-located ICSE 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In addition, two of the SEPARS organizers, Victor Pankratius and Walter Tichy (both of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany) and Mike Wrinn and Jeff Gallagher (both of Intel) co-taught an ICSE tutorial (lecture and hands-on) about parallel programming concepts and tools during the conference. Read about it in Jeff's blog here.

Intel Sponsors ACM's AM Turing Award

For the 8^th year, Intel is sponsoring the ACM's A.M. Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize" of Computing, given to an individual selected for contributions made to the computing community with lasting and major technical importance to the field. According to VP of Research at Intel, Andrew Chien, "We believe that the long term success of industry and enterprise depends on foundational research and discovery. Intel is proud to be associated with the level of excellence in computing required by the Turing Award." For more information about the Turing Award and the 2008 winner Barbara Liskov, go to http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/turing-award-08.

The following video is a discussion with Andrew Chien on supporting excellence in computing, including:

3:08 The ACM's Turing Award presentation is on June 27. Andrew talks about AM Turing's philosophy and the Turing Award.

6:58 Why does Intel sponsor these sort of big money awards? Andrew focuses on supporting the community and values of excellence in computing.

8:04 Barbara Liskov, the Turing award winner was one of Andrews mentors. Hear his personal account of her contributions, research, and leadership in the field.

11:54 Andrew is a fellow in the Association of Computing Machinery. He talks about the ACM and the quality of its membership.

13:50 Find out more about Intel and Research at www.intel.com/research and learn about Intel's leadership supporting Academia at www.intel.com/thinkparallel.




ACM Award for Advancing Reliability of Computer Architecture Design
ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture presented Intel's Shubu Mukherjee with the 2009 Maurice Wilkes Award during the International Symposium on Computer Architecture in Austin, Texas. Mukherjee, an Intel principal engineer and director of the company's Simulations and Pathfinding for Efficient and Reliable Systems Group, has helped make microprocessors and other silicon chips more reliable by introducing a method of computing soft error rate (SER) that identifies prime candidates for error protection. Mukherjee's work cleared the way for cost-effective solutions for weighing a processor's SER against performance, power, and area. Find out more.