ACADEMIA
EduPar-12: Second NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education
Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) now permeates most computing activities. The pervasiveness of computing devices containing multicore CPUs and GPUs, including home and office PCs and laptops, is making even common users dependent on parallel processing. Certainly, it is no longer sufficient for even basic programmers to acquire only the traditional sequential programming skills. The preceding trends point to the need for imparting a broad-based skill set in PDC technology at various levels in the educational fabric woven by Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs as well as related computational disciplines. However, the rapid changes in computing hardware platforms and devices, languages, supporting programming environments, and research advances, more than ever challenge educators in knowing what to include in the curriculum and what to teach in any given semester or course.
The 2nd workshop invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and research institutes for short and regular papers on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering (and related) curriculum. The emphasis of the second workshop continues to be on the undergraduate education. This effort is in coordination with NSF/TCPP curriculum initiative for CS/CE undergraduates (http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/index.php).
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Pedagogical issues in PDC
2. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics
3. Models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum
4. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are asked to submit 4 pages for short paper and 6 pages for regular papers in pdf to EasyChair submission site at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=edupar12. Accepted papers will be published in the IPDPS proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 10 2012: Paper submission deadline
February 7, 2012: Author notification
February 21, 2012: Camera-ready paper deadline
ORGANIZATION:
Workshop Chair:
Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University
Program Committee:
Chtchelkanova, Almadena, NSF
Crowder, Grace, NSA
Das, Sajal, University of Texas at Arlington
Das, Chita, Penn State University
Dehne, Frank, Carleton University, Canada,
Gannon, Dennis, Microsoft Research
Gouda, Mohamed, University of Texas, Austin, NSF
Gupta, Anshul, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Jaja, Joseph, University of Maryland
Kant, Krishna, Intel, NSF
La Salle, Anita, NSF
LeBlanc, Richard, Seattle University
Lumsdaine, Andrew, Indiana University
Padua, David, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Parashar, Manish, Rutgers
Prasad, Sushil, Georgia State University
Prasanna, Viktor, University of Southern California
Reed, Daniel, Microsoft Research
Robert, Yves, INRIA, France
Rosenberg, Arnold, Colorado State University
Sahni, Sartaj, University of Florida
Shirazi, Behrooz, Washington State University
Sussman, Alan, University of Maryland
Weems, Charles, University of Massachusetts
Wu, Jie, Temple University