English | 中文 | Русский | Français
2,556 Posts served
8,271 Conversations started
Discuss the challenges of teaching parallel programming in a serial world. Hear about and share your views on the changes coming as technology evolves to more parallel more often.
Hi All, If you are going to the event next week in Berlin then let me know about it. Maybe we can meet face to face and if there are enough of us perhaps even a gourp community meeting. This can be a good opportunity to meet the experts. In any case, you are all welcome to [...]
Since the kickoff of the High School Parallelism bootcamp this summer, I've received several requests for a write up of the five role playing activities we used. The activities put students in the place of procesor cores and had them perform tasks in parallel. These activities proved to be popular among many of the [...]
You are hereby invited to a gathering on November 17 at 5:30 pm in room C124 of the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. We are having a panel discussion focused on incorporating parallelism into the Computer Science curriculum. Of course, you might need to purchase a day pass to SC09 to attend, if you are [...]
Dear Colleagues, As a member of the Informatics Education Europe Organizing Committee it is a pleasure for me to inform you of the IEE IV 2009 conference which will take place on November 5-6 in Freiburg, Germany. Informatics Education Europe IV is the fourth in a series of conferences promoted by ACM to provide a forum for [...]
I just finished writing a 76 byte program. I gave my Computer Architecture midterm yesterday. One of the four problems was to predict the output of a 17 byte program. This is with an assembly language where the bulk of the instructions are three bytes. The correct answer is of course 42, once the unconditional branch [...]
If you are not new to Intel, you'll know Intel is not new to the Embedded world. Names like Xscale, IXP had gained big fame for Intel in university campus. Professors are now looking at what actions coming up for the "new babies" - Atom platforms. On Oct.21st till Oct.23rd, a faculty workshop on curriculum of [...]
Teaching a class is a real pleasure when the participants are all fully engaged in the subject matter. Such was the case ealier this month when we assembled faculty members from University Polytechnica Bucharest (PUB), as well as 5 other universities around Romania to review our course materials on parallel programming. The event began with [...]
Initially, this post was going to be titled "To blog or not to blog", but that seemed to perhaps cut a little too close to my perhaps overly infrequent updates here. What I wanted to muse about a bit, however, was the sudden currency of the issues around higher education and the use of social [...]
I'm giving this a very leading title -- with any luck this is the first of a series of blog entries about my experiences weaving multicore concepts and issues into the junior-level Operating Systems course that I'm teaching this semester. The title is specifically "Design of Operating Systems", which is really a perfect way to [...]
December 3rd at 4PM CST 12/3 | 4PM | 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science UPCRC Illinois Research Seminar: A Structured, Unified Approach to Multi-Core and Many-Core Computing - with Applications by Michael McCool, Intel & U of Waterloo
Since my first blog on moodle topic published last April “Moodle Community, Another Example of Moore's Law”, I have received many responses either by blog replies or emails. For those who asked me about moodle and did not get my response, I can only offer apologies as I am still a learner and have no [...]
The European Computer Science Summit’s last day panel discussion went more deeply in to the subject of the conference and raised old questions and controversies among Computer scientists. Wendy Hall advocated computer scientists not to think of themselves as a 'service science' building applications to enable other sciences’ work and encouraged the audience to think [...]
While at ECSS 2009, I followed the track on Multi-disciplinary Curricula. The session opened with a presentation by Budapest University of Technology and Economics Professor describing a very interesting new R&D program (the Innovation and Knowledge Centre of Information Technology made up of 9 enterprises, 5 university departments,) whereby Industry and Academics were gathered in [...]
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. The [...]
It was a sunny day last Thursday in Paris after a very stormy night, I was sitting in the sun filled conference room with 80 deans and Rectors of the top universities in Europe attending the European Computer Science Summit where the first Keynote speaker Dr. Mark Harris, Intel GMBh highlighted how science addresses many [...]