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Posted April 6th 20110
SIGCSE 11 seemed like a good place to challenge some of the assumptions that we make all year round. Assumptions, and dare I say, excuses, for why the integration of parallelism into undergraduate classrooms seems to be progressing so slowly. When we develop and decide what programs to fund, ...
Posted November 18th 20101
I was in and out of the panel and discussion yesterday at SC10 - Preparing for Extreme Parallel Environments- doing heavy lifting of tripods and butcher sheets, carting around collateral, however I did manage to sit still for the wrap up and wanted to share for those of you who either couldn't ...
Posted June 1st 20101
We hear from industry that they're looking for developers with experience in parallel programming. We see a demand for the processing power and speed that can only come from multiple cores working in cooperation, but university curricula, especially in the US, hasn't kept speed with the demand… ...
Posted July 2nd 20090
My background and inclination, lead me to want to report on my recent trip to the ACM Awards like I would the Oscar’s… “Dr. Andrew Chien was looking debonair in his classic black Tux with elegant gray and white flecked ...
Posted June 24th 20094
In a flurry of last minute e-mails I secured a video interview with the VP of Intel Labs and Director of Future Technologies Research, Andrew Chien, last ...