[TYPES/announce] CFP: First Workshop on Curricula in Concurrency and Parallelism OOPSLA 2009

[Vijay Saraswat]

      First Workshop on Curricula in Concurrency and Parallelism OOPSLA 2009

http://concurrencypedagogy.ning.com/

*Important Dates
*

    * Submission deadline for position papers: August 30, 2009
    * Notification of decision: September 14, 2009
    * Workshop Date: Monday, October 26

The concurrency era has exploded on us. Multicore systems are now 
everywhere -- in our laptops, desktops, graphic cards, video game 
consoles. Symmetric multi-processors and clusters dominate the server 
and high performance computing market and are the foundation for cloud 
computing.

There is an urgent need to ensure that newly trained Computer Science 
graduates are well versed in the principles and practice of concurrent 
and parallel programming. Following a previous successful workshop on 
Multicore Programming Education at ASPLOS 2009, this workshop will 
address several fundamental questions:

    What are the ``fundamental ideas'' of concurrency and parallelism
    that every Computer Science graduate should know? That every college
    graduate should know?

    Should concurrency and parallelism be taught ``top-down'' (via
    high-level abstractions such as operations on collections) or bottom
    up (with low-level tools such as threads and locks)?

    Should sequential programming be taught as a ``special case'' of
    concurrent and parallel programming?

    Should concurrency and parallelism issues be addressed in
    introductory computer science courses?

    Should concurrency and parallelism topics be ``sprinkled'' in
    existing courses (e.g. in architecture, systems, programming
    languages, algorithms) -- if so which topics in those courses should
    be taken out to make room? Should these topics be taught in their
    own separate stream?

This workshop aims to bring together practitioners and thinkers to 
address this topic. It will be organized around the presentation of 
position papers selected by the PC, and a panel discussion. The results 
of the workshop will be made available online at 
http://concurrencypedagogy.ning.com

*Potential participants are invited to submit 2-page position papers 
addressing these topics, for consideration by the Program Committee.*


        Program Committee

Guy Blelloch, Carnegie-Mellon University
Kim Bruce, Pomona College
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University
Tim Mattson, Intel Corporation
Vijay Saraswat, IBM Corporation (co-chair)
Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester
Guy L. Steele, Jr Sun Microsystems (co-chair)
Kathy Yelick, UC Berkeley and NERSC

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