Program

Monday, August 28

Session A

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome, opening remarks

09:10 - 10:00 Keynote presentation:
Peter Rodgers. "Resource Oriented Computing: A general abstraction for thermodynamically efficient computation"

10:00 - 10:30 Regular paper:
Arnold Rosenberg. "Cellular ANTomata: A Tool for Early PDC Education"

Session B

11:00 - 11:30 Invited presentation:
Domingo Gimenez. "An experience of five years using parallel programming contests for teaching"

11:30 - 12:00 Regular paper:
Manuel I. Capel Tunon, Antonio J. Tomeu-Hardasmal and Alberto Salguero. "A Set of Patterns for Concurrent and Parallel Programming Teaching"

12:00 - 12:30 Regular paper:
Antonio J. Tomeu-Hardasmal, Alberto Salguero and Manuel I. Capel Tunon. "Teaching Software Transactional Memory in Concurrency Courses with Clojure and Java"

12:30 - 13:00 Regular paper:
Yanik Ngoko and Denis Trystram. "Revisiting Flynn' classification"

Session C

14:30 - 15:00 Invited presentation:
Sushil Prasad. "The NSF/TCPP curriculum initiative for Computer Science undergraduates"

15:00 - 15:30 Regular paper:
Virginia Niculescu and Darius Bufnea. "Experience with Teaching PDC Topics into Babes-Bolyai University's CS Courses"

15:30 - 16:00 Regular paper:
Giovanni Battista Barone, Vania Boccia, Davide Bottalico and Luisa Carracciuolo. "SCoPE@Scuola: (in)-formative paths on topics related with High Performance, Parallel and Distributed Computing"

Session D

16:30 - 17:00 Regular paper:
Sheikh Ghafoor, David Brown and Mike Rogers. "Integrating Parallel Computing in Introductory Programming Classes: An Experience and Lessons Learned"

17:00 - 17:59 Panel:
"How should we evaluate the success of curriculum changes in Parallel and Distributed Computing?"
Panelists: Sheikh Ghafoor, Domingo Jimenez, Sushil Prasad, Peter Rodgers.
Moderator: Arnold L. Rosenberg.

17:59 - 18:00 Closing remarks.