[TYPES/announce] CFP for Workshop on Curricula and Concurrency and Parallelism at SPLASH (Oct 2010)

[Vijay Saraswat]

Please consider submitting to this workshop. We had a very stimulating 
workshop last year at OOPSLA.

http://www.cs.pomona.edu/~kim/CCP2010.html

Best,
Vijay


  2010 Workshop on Curricula for Concurrency and Parallelism


    SPLASH 2010


      Sunday, October 17, 2010

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, and at OOPSLA 2009, this 
workshop will address several fundamental questions:

    * What are the ``fundamental ideas'' of concurrency and parallelism
      that every Computer Science 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.

Potential participants are invited to submit 2-page position papers 
addressing these topics, for consideration by the Program Committee. The 
paper should address the authors' experience and thoughts on this topic, 
and raise questions that they would like to see discussed at the 
workshop. In the case of educators we are also interested in 
understanding how your academic department is organizing as a whole to 
address these pedagogical issues.

Potential participants are invited to submit 2-page position papers 
addressing these topics for consideration by the program committee. 
Please submit by e-mail to vijay at saraswat.org.


      Program Committee

    * Kim Bruce, Pomona College (co-chair)
    * Vijay Saraswat, IBM (co-chair)
    * Guy Blelloch, CMU
    * Daniel Ernst, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
    * Tim Mattson, Intel
    * Guy Steele, Oracle
    * /other members to be announced/


      Important Dates:

    * Submission deadline for position papers: September 1, 2010
    * Notification of decision: September 13, 2010
    * Workshop Date: Sunday, October 17

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