Author's Blogs
Posted Mai 5th 20112
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?The punchline to that old joke, for those of you who did not grow up in the United States, is Grant, as in Ulysses S. Grant, the civil war general. The point of the joke, beloved of Groucho ...
Posted Mai 1st 20110
Intel Fellow, Shekhar Borkar.
The A.M. Turing award is (arguably) our discipline's greatest honor; many call it the "Nobel Prize" of computing. The current award is destined for Leslie Valiant, Harvard University, for his life's work revolving especially around computational learning ...
Posted Avril 19th 20111
flaga. Intel Academic Microgrants for Parallelism in the Classroom, Round Two, closes May 4, 2011. Apply here
First off - No, that's not me in the video, but rather my colleague, Jennifer Teal, from the Academic Community. ...
Posted Avril 19th 20110
I recently attended the first Parallel Programming MeetUp in Santa Clara California at Intel HQ. The event was put on and hosted by my colleague, Parallel Computing Community Manager, Kathy Farrel. The event was attended by developers, students and academics and was both informative, in that it ...
Posted Avril 4th 20110
Dr. Avi Cohen, Inspector General, Computer Science, Israel Ministry of Education.
Wouldn't it be great if all kids in high school had the option of studying computer science? Wouldn't it be insanely great (pax, Mr. Jobs), if all students were required to at least get their feet wet, or their ...
Posted Mars 31st 20110
As some of you may know, both I, the Intel Academic Community Manager, and Professor Tom Murphy, Intel Academic Blackbelt & Teach Parallel co-host, "moonlight" as leaders of the ...
Posted Mars 30th 20110
Conversations with Dan Garcia of the University of California at Berkeley are always exciting. For those of you who do not know him, Dan is a leader in bringing parallelism into the classroom, moreover, he is one ...
Posted Mars 28th 20113
In the United States, we have what are called Advanced Placement (AP) courses, designed to give high achieving and ambitious young people in high school a head start before they enter college. There is quite a bit of ...
Posted Mars 17th 20111
We've all achieved what we have in life with the help of others – by standing on the shoulders of giants as the old saying goes. Well how broad are your shoulders? Here at the Academic Community we are considering a program to help encourage mentoring among our members. We'll focus on parallelism ...
Posted Janvier 31st 20114
We all have dreams, but it often takes a lot of work to make them come true. More than 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, a great American, delivered a ...