Teach Parallel Episode #5: Profesor Matthew Wolf
Today Professor Tom Murphy and I led our fifth Teach Parallel broadcast and our guest was Professor Matt Wolf from Georgia Tech. For those few unfamiliar with Matt's work, he has been an early adopter of integrating parallelism into the undergraduate curriculum. On today's show, Matt discussed Georgia Tech's threads approach to curriculum structure with emphasis on how this strategy lends itself to incorporation of new concepts such as parallelism and the architectural awarenss necessary to support coding for many cores. Matt also discussed the need to build a critical thinking background within Computer (andd I would argue, Computationl) Science.
Matt finished by just touching on his concepts/building blocks for multicore programming - more fodder for future discussions with Matt.
Today Professor Tom Murphy and I led our fifth Teach Parallel broadcast and our guest was Professor Matt Wolf from Georgia Tech. For those few unfamiliar with Matt's work, he has been an early adopter of integrating parallelism into the undergraduate curriculum. On today's show, Matt discussed Georgia Tech's threads approach to curriculum structure with emphasis on how this strategy lends itself to incorporation of new concepts such as parallelism and the architectural awarenss necessary to support coding for many cores. Matt also discussed the need to build a critical thinking background within Computer (andd I would argue, Computationl) Science.
Matt finished by just touching on his concepts/building blocks for multicore programming - more fodder for future discussions with Matt.
Comments
Paul, you don't have to argue... at least not with me. Critical thinking about multicore issues should be grown in all of the overlapping fields of "Computing Writ Large" -- computer science, computational science, informatics, human-computer interaction, computer engineering, robotics, and so on.
And, more generally, I'd be tempted to just end the sentence as "...need to build a critical thinking background. Full Stop." But maybe that's just the extra cup of coffee talking.