Hello, from the Intel Academic Community Intern! It seems like just yesterday, the Intel Academic Community was prepping for SIGCSE 2012. Now, it has come and gone and in my opinion, could not have gone better! This year, I was given the unique oppurtunity to project manage Intel's booth at SIGCSE. First hand, I can say SIGCSE 2012 (Feb 29-Mar 3rd) was a few days of non stop, action packed, and exciting collaborations! One observation I was especially excited about was the mainstream nature of Parallelism this year. In fact, I would go as far as to say - Parallelism was the unwritten theme!
Couldn't make it? That's okay, we've got you covered below!
At SIGCSE, there was much excitement surrounding the long awaited release of the new ACM Computer Science Curriculum 2013 recommendation, the first major revision since 2001. While the recommendation does not yet have parallelism integrated throughout, it has come light years ahead. The Academic Community's own Michael Wrinn was active in the recommendation process. These guidelines will ultimately impact programs at several thousand schools worldwide.
Another very exciting event which occurred at SIGCSE this year was the first ever Lightning Rounds session hosted by Intel! What are Lightning rounds? Presenters at this session are given five minutes and five slides to demonstrate how they have brought parallelism into their curriculum. This fast paced, thrilling and informative session not only gave attendees a wide range of ideas for teaching content, but also sparked enthusiasm around the room! Tune in below to the videos of these action packed presentations!
Workshop Sessions
- A Stratified View of Programming Language Parallelism for Undergraduate CS Education Moderated by Dick Brown, St. Olaf College
- Parallelism and Concurrency for Data-Structures & Algorithms Courses Lead by Robert Chesebrough of Intel and Johnnie Baker , Kent State
- A Parallelism and Concurrency paper session chaired by Jodi Tims, Baldwin-Wallace College
Tune in below for videos from SIGCSE 2012! Including an interview with, yours truly!
 Lightning Round Intro
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 Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round: Real-time Concurrency Simulation |
 Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round: Very Early Parallelism |
 Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round: Plumbing in Parallel |
 Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round: Java Parallel Programming Project: Where are the People
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 Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round: Active Learning Excercise Dr. Joel Adam's presentation in the Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round |
 Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round: A Need for Speed Edward Carr's presentation in the Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round |
 Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round: Six Degrees of Separation Andrew Petersen's presentation in the Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round
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 Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round: The Beauty and Joy of Computing Dan Garcia's presentation in the Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round |
 Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round: Alice Dennis Cosgrove's presentation in the Teaching Parallelism Lightning Round |
 Paul Steinberg, Tom Murphy, David Ginat, & Dan Garcia . Teach Parallel with Paul Steinberg and Tom Murphy at SIGCSE 2012 |
 Paul Steinberg, Tom Murphy & Dan Garcia . Teach Parallel with Paul Steinberg and Tom Murphy at SIGCSE 2012 |
 Paul Steinberg, Tom Murphy & Burke Walls Teach Parallel with Paul Steinberg and Tom Murphy at SIGCSE 2012 |
 Paul Steinberg, Tom Murphy, & Andrew Petersen Teach Parallel with Paul Steinberg and Tom Murphy at SIGCSE 2012 |
 Paul Steinberg, Tom Murphy, & Dr. Joe Hummel Teach Parallel with Paul Steinberg and Tom Murphy at SIGCSE 2012 |
Burke Walls of Intel talks to Intel Academic Community intern Abi Sundaram about what it is like being an intern for Intel.
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SIGCSE Preview Video