Dr. Richard Brown is the newest Black Belt for Academia

It is a pleasure to introduce our newest Intel® Black Belt for Academia, Dr. Richard (Dick) Brown of St. Olaf College. Dr. Brown has been an active member of the Intel® Software Network's Academic Community for 3 years.

There is a new Black Belt in the Academic Community

It is an exciting day in the Intel Academic Community; we have a new Black Belt for Academia! It is my pleasure to announce that Professor Jose Villeta of the University of Southern California (USC) is our latest member to be promoted to this most coveted and honored position.
The Black Belt for Academia is earned through a combination of community participation, leadership, integration of parallel programming into curriculum nominations, and approval by the Intel selection committee.

Brown goes to Town. Thinking Parallel in Minnesota

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 talk on Ubiquitous Parallelism. He told me recently that this talk really helped him realize that a big change in CS curriculum was necessary.

IAC at Intel Developer Forum

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.