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Part 4/7: Sequential Programming is no more. Why Are we still Teaching it? All major manufactures of CPUs, GPUs and ASICs have moved to a many core design, yet universities and colleges are not training engineers in the parallel and concurrent disciplines needed to efficiently program on such systems. This panel at Supercomputing 08, featuring Dr. Michael Wrinn for Intel, Dr. Steven Parker for NVidia, Dr. Christoph Lameter for The Linux Foundation, Professor Wen-Mei Hwu of the University of Illinois, Professor Charlie Peck of Earlham College and Professor Tom Murphy of Contra Costa College, kicked off an industry/academia working group to help remedy this situation. The panel’s debates and discussions of the key question: Sequential programming is no more — why are we still teaching it?, as well as the vigorous audience response, demonstrates the centrality of this question to those of us both in the industry and in academia. Panelists met after with a wider industry/academia follow-up meeting, including AMD, IBM, SUN, UC Berkeley and others, to form a working group to propose, foster, share and develop a new computer science and engineering curriculum with parallelism at its core.