Proceedings of the First Wellesley Forum on Parallel Computing Curricula

March 31 - April 1, 1995

Sponsored by NECUSE and Wellesley College

Edited by P. Takis Metaxas and Matthew Merzbacher

Contents and Authors

• David Kotz, Dartmouth College: "A Programming Language for Teaching Parallel Computing to First-year Students" [2K HTML with 24K GIF]
• Greg Wilson, U. Toronto "Teaching Horses to Whistle: Parallel Computing and the Undergraduate Computational Science Curriculum" [51K PostScript]
• Guy Blelloch and Jonathan Hardwick, Carnegie-Mellon University: "Nesl: A language for teaching parallel algorithms" [1K HTML]
• Panagiotis T. Metaxas, Wellesley College: Teach Ideas, Not Programming Tricks" [20K PDF]
• Thomas Braeunl, U. Stuttgart: "Data-Parallel Image Processing in Parallaxis" [4996K PostScript]
• John Savage, Brown University: "Integrating Parallelism in the First Theory Course." [1K HTML]
• Alan Edelman, MIT [2K HTML with larger GIF] >: "Parallel Computing: What the oldtimers have always known and what students really need to know"
• Arnold L. Rosenberg, UMASS-Amherst: "Thoughts on Parallel Computing in a Computer Science Curriculum" [68K PostScript]
• Janusz Zalewski, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: "Focusing Undergraduate Curriculum on Parallel Computing" [128K PostScript]
• Azer Bestavros, Roscoe Giles, Abdelsalam Heddaya, Steve Homer, and Claudio Rebbi, Boston U.: "The Boston University Parallel Curriculum" [4K HTML]
• Arnold Pears, La Trobe University: "Using the DiST Simulator to Teach Parallel Computing Concepts" [162K postscript] , [1K HTML]
• PANEL: "Is Parallel Computing Dead?"

  Organized by: Nan Schaller, RIT. Panelists:
  Thomas Braunl, U. Stuttgart
  Elias Manolakos, Northeastern U.
  Chris Nevison, Colgate U.
  Marios Papaefthymiou, Yale U.
  Kelly Pickard, MasPar
  Claudio Rebbi, Boston U
  Arnold Rosenberg, U. MASS
  Joachim Theilhaber, TMC
  

   

• Thomas Cheatham, Harvard University: "Developing Transportable Software for High Performance Computers" [152K PostScript]
• Chris Nevison, Colgate: "A Pipeline Prime Number Sieve: A Case Study in Parallel Computing Using Transputers." [16K HTML]
• Andrew P. Bakkers, University of Twente/Open University, and Nan Schaller, RIT: "Training for Transputer Technologies" [465K postscript]
• Paul Horwitz, BBN: "Function Machines: Programming in Two Dimensions" [5K HTML]
• Robert M. Keller, Harvey Mudd College: "The Future of Meta-Programming in Parallel Languages" [48K HTML]
• Jacques Cohen, Brandeis University: "Developing a Data-Parallel YACC-like Compiler Generator"
• Boleslaw Mikolajczak, UMASS-Dartmouth: "Importance of Isoefficiency Analysis in Teaching Parallel Computing"[720K postscript]
• PANEL: "The Dynamic Nature of Parallel Computing Curricula" [12K HTML]

  Organized by: Dan Hyde, Bucknell University, and Rodney Tosten, Gettysburg College
  Panelists: David E. Keyes, Old Dominion Univ. & ICASE
  Paul Tymann, SUNY at Oswego
  P. Takis Metaxas, Wellesley College
  

The workshop is sponsored by NECUSE and Wellesley College

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