From Education

Attendees

• Paul Steinberg
• Matt Wolf
• Michael Wrinn
• Andrew Fitz Gibbon
• Tom Murphy
• Steve Parker
• Wen-Mei Hwu
• Wilf Pinfold
• Umesh Thakkar
• Dan <didn't catch last name>

Panel for SC09

• Submission date April 3
• SC08's panel was "we need to do it"
• SC09's should be "here's one way do it"
  • Proposal doesn't need to be very long
  • Panelists from various backgrounds
  • Panel will work to have a debate for the pros/cons
  • Put out a strong position, and get people to debate it
    • Can we narrow down a position down to a couple statements?
    • Use as kick off point
  • Focus on the people who are currently trying to get this stuff into the curr.
  • If general panel, audience would be much more technical than it would be in the education program
  • The general conference would be people involved in graduate education, so they will be looking at this generally, rather than undergraduate specifically.
  • Distinguish between major/non-CS-major, first year, etc.
  • In the general conference, education is seen as a way to forward industry, education program is concerned because it's what they do all the time
  • Target it because industry needs college grads with experience in parallel program
• Questions we should be asking:
  • What are the skill sets needed by national labs/etc from recent grads?
  • What are the general ideas that we want grads to be able to know about upon graduating?
• Edcation program targets undergraduate education
  • General conference has a much much wider audience (DOE labs, University labs, etc)
• If we focus purely on undergraduate, audience will be much smaller
• Tom, Paul, Wen-Mei, Michael, Matt to work on proposal(s) for panel
• Companies represented on this call that are big competitors, yet on this point they are highly interested in cooperation
  • Try to get one each from at least 2 competitors on panel and/or on proposal/article
    • e.g. Steve Parker from NVIDIA and Micheal Wrinn from Intel
• Declining CS enrollment as hook
• Academics here will have a hard time getting something done soon (end of the school year)
  • It would be nice to have something well before SC
• Use wiki. get some prose into it for all to review
• Possibly NSF funds to extend education program
  • Deadline is probably about to pass
• If group can support funds to put into Education program
  • Get some proposals to draw more industry and educational folk
• CPATH deadline is a month from today
• CCLI solicitation is coming up December
• Meet at Berkeley workshop near the end of the summer?
  • Good number of people already going to be there
• "Teach Parallel": internet discussion about Parallell/Concurrency discussion
  • Audience is natural science undergraduate teachers
  • Should increase to a broad audience
  • Good starting place is SIGCSE attendees