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Scott Apeland (Intel)

Scott is the Director of Intel's Developer Network and responsible for the Intel Software Network and Intel Software College. He joined Intel in 1991 and has worked on programs spanning embedded controllers, video conferencing, streaming media and now developer networks. Scott's favorite thing in the world to do is fish, anywhere, anytime. He also likes to ski and keeps pretty busy watching his four kids play football, basketball, baseball and tennis.

Parallel Programming in Bangalore

By Scott Apeland (Intel) (4 posts) on July 23, 2009 at 10:34 pm
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I’m currently on the second leg of grueling plane ride home from Bangalore and reflecting back on the highlight of the trip which was definitely the opportunity to spend time with a few visionaries in India academia - Vice Chancellor H.P. Khincha, Dr. H.S Jamadagni and Dr. K. Rajanikanth. On Saturday, together we inaugurated a [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming

1000 Universities Teaching Parallel Programming

By Scott Apeland (Intel) (4 posts) on March 3, 2009 at 11:17 pm
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Congratulations to Jordan University of Science and Technology and Dr. Mazen Kharbutli who became the 1000th University to join the initiative to bring parallel programming to university curriculum.    Dr. Kharbutli joins faculty who are actively updating their CS and engineering classes and teaching their students how to think parallel.  What I'm particularly excited to see is that [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming

Our First Intel® Black Belt Software Developer

By Scott Apeland (Intel) (4 posts) on August 20, 2008 at 12:04 am
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I’m here at the first day of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco and just returned from the Black Belt Awards Ceremony.   No this wasn’t a Chuck Norris film festival, it was a reception to honor and award Intel’s first Black Belt Software Developer.  You see it all started to years ago when we [...]

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Category: Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Visual Computing

Do Parallel Universes Really Exist?

By Scott Apeland (Intel) (4 posts) on March 12, 2008 at 9:11 pm
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Ok, so I'm not an expert on Everett's Many-Worlds Theory but I do know that Many Core is a reality and that every day we're seeing more and more "parallel universities" or universities teaching parallel programming skills. In 2006, the Intel Software College launched a program to bring multicore software tools, threading expertise and courseware [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming