1. TCPP/NSF Planning Workshop on Curriculum How to ensure success?
Krishna Kant
Intel/NSF

2. How to engage stakeholders?
Articulate the problem well
What is important?
Diversity vs. Standardization

3. Articulate the Problem
What’s really broken with current curriculum?
Inadequate preparation? Scope too wide? Unclear?
What’s the goal of the solution?
Better programmers?
From whose perspective? (students, faculty, employers)
Can we solve the problem?
E.g., can we really teach how think parallel?

4. What is Important? Ok, we need the fundamentals
What are they?
Correctness, programming models, synchronization, fault-tolerance, performance, …
How about technologies & engineering?
Virtualization, scheduling, system mgmt, web-services, …
Scalability
Do we teach them about products?
Hadoop, MPI implementations, OpenMP, …
Are we trying to produce programmers or computer scientists?

5. Diversity vs. Standardization
Should we have a uniform (“standard”) curriculum in all universities?
Is there a common fundamental set? What is that?
Is disorganized diversity necessarily bad?
How can we approach change?
Education & research need to go together.