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Zander Sprague (Intel)

Zander Sprague has been working in the corporate world for over 18 years. He has worked for such companies as Fidelity Investments and Intel Corporation, as well as various startups. In his current role as the Relationship Manager for the Intel Academic Program, he works closely with professors to deepen their relationship with Intel. He assists them in fining the tools and resources they need to start to THINK PARALLEL. Zander has been a technical trainer for over 15 years and has a true passion for passing on learning to all who need it. His varied training experiences allow him to bring fresh insight to all the projects he works on. Zander is also a professional speaker and published author. Prior to his career as a speaker, author and trainer, Zander graduated from Pitzer College, noted as being the leading liberal arts college for social and behavioral sciences, and a member of the Claremont Colleges. He holds a BA in History as well as a BA in Psychology

Brown goes to Town. Thinking Parallel in Minnesota

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on November 20, 2009 at 11:41 am
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I have to say that I love my job. I get to meet all kinds of fascinating people all on the same road to THINK PARALLEL.  One such person is Dr. Dick Brown of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Brown attended last year’s SIGCSE in Chattanooga, TN, and heard Michael Wrinn of Intel’s [...]

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IAC at Intel Developer Forum

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on September 24, 2009 at 4:40 pm
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What an exciting IDF I just attended.  There were all kinds of cool announcements like the Xeon 3400 micro-server chip, and 22 nm chips out soon, the launching of the Intel Atom Developer Program. The list is long and exciting. We had the Black Belt meet up Wednesday night and there was quite a lot [...]

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New Black Belts for the Academic Community

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on August 11, 2009 at 12:37 pm
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It is an exciting time here in the Intel Academic Community. We have just named our first 2 Black Belts for Academia, Dr. Matt Wolf from Georgia Institute of Technology and Tom Murphy from Contra Costa Community College. CONGRATULATIONS guys!!!   I have had the pleasure of working with both men at many Intel events. Their [...]

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Cool Happenings at Calvin College

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on July 15, 2009 at 8:28 am
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I have to say that I LOVE my job, I get to talk to professors every day and learn about the cool ways that they are utilizing Intel’s technology in their research and curriculums. It is so fun to let them know about the cool tools we have available for them. Like V-tune, Thread checker [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming

The first step is the hardest

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on April 23, 2009 at 2:46 pm
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It is always interesting to start a new job. All the excitement of a new adventure and the hope promise it holds. As I start my second week as the Relationship manager, I have found myself thinking a lot about how to start. Who should I call first? What new modes of communication are there [...]

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Meet the Intel Academic Program Relationship Manager

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on April 16, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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Ok, so I have a new position with in the Intel Academic Program. A lot of you have gotten to know me as the Americas Geography Manager, and that was a position that I really loved.  My colleague Rowena Turner is taking over that position and I am now the Relationship Manager for the Intel [...]

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WOW 1000

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on March 3, 2009 at 8:02 am
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  It is really an exciting day for the Academic world; today the Intel Academic Community announced that the 1000th university joined the program. In conjunction with this momentous event, I am running a Day of Parallelism here in Chattanooga, TN.  The morning has kicked off with a riveting talk by Dr. Mathew Wolf of Georgia [...]

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Howdy from Austin: Day 3 of SC08

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on November 19, 2008 at 7:53 pm
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Howdy from Austin, TX and day 3 of SC08. The Intel Academic Community kicked off the day with another great round of debate on the No more sequential code topic. Today we  had Dr Steve Heller from Sun and Dr Dan Heller from Microsoft. They both brought fresh ideas to this subject and even got [...]

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Category: Academic, Events, Parallel Programming

SC 08 day 2: the excitement builds

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on November 18, 2008 at 7:16 pm
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There is a building excitement here at SC 08.  As we talk to more and professors, we are hearing that they are looking for ways to implement concurrent programming in to their curriculums.  Today was an exciting day for me at my first Super Computing convention. I spent the day talking to professors and graduate [...]

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Category: Academic, Events, Parallel Programming

The Elephant in the Room

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on November 18, 2008 at 7:13 pm
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Hello from Super Computing 08.  The Intel Academic Community kicked off our time at SC08 with a rousing Bird of a Feather panel talk about Sequential programming and why we are still teaching it. There was great audience participation, with many sides of the issue raised. What model do you use to teach concurrent programming? [...]

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Category: Academic, Events, Parallel Programming

The Dawn of Atom

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on September 16, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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I wanted to talk about my new netbook, no, I want gush about how very cool it is. Two weeks ago, I decided to go to a conference and I was pondering what technology I might need. Since this is a personal trip, I would not bring my work laptop. I have a wonderfully heavy [...]

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The other side of Multicore and Parallel Programming

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on April 21, 2008 at 10:54 am
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My name is Zander Sprague and I am the Americas Geography Manager for Intel Software College.  I want to start off my blog, by stating that I am rather nervous about this experience. I do not view myself as a writer; I am a speaker, so I feel a little out of my element. That being [...]

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Category: Academic