Preventing The Brainware Crisis.
Ingo Dahm, Microsoft
Computer science is not only a key enabling technology, but also has a serious impact on our society. This influences today's kids and the future generation of students. Sociologists divide nowadays learners into different generations. All of them show special abilities and disadvantages as well. In this talk, I will present generations and their abilities and discuss advantages of different learning approaches and learning environments. Finally, we will do a reality-check and demonstrate the differences of student and educator perceptions.
BIOGRAPHY
Ingo Dahm is Head of Academic Relations of Microsoft Germany. As an industry ambassador, he works in advisory boards of several education institutions. He mainly influences the Microsoft strategy in higher education, especially in the learning & teaching space.
He received his Ph.D. in engineering at the University of Dortmund in 2005, where he founded the student robot-soccer team "Microsoft Hellhounds" and co-developed a learning framework for CS and robotics teaching. At Microsoft, he deals with education in HigherEd - focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering, math). His team implemented a talent fostering program for students (Microsoft Student Partners) and works together with educators, politicians, and industry leaders to share ideas and strategies for a better education. Thereto, he had been chairman of Academic Days on Education. Ingo's team educates about 20k students per year in over 500 workshops.
First year CS students; do they really need to 'think parallel'?
Bev Bachmayer, Industry Program Manager, Intel Academic Program
Today most computer systems leave the factory with multiple execution units (cores); yet engineers are leaving their universities and colleges without the training in the parallel and concurrent disciplines they will need to efficiently program such systems. Today's computer science curricula rarely include parallelism and when they do, it is often relegated to advanced topics or electives. What can be done to speed adoption of parallelism where it matters the most?
BIOGRAPHY
Bev works with associations and industry partners to help University professors prepare the next generation of software professionals for leading edge technologies. For more than 20 years, she has been collaborating with independent software vendors to deliver optimal performance on Intel processors, in addition to directing teams of Intel technology specialists supporting a leading business software developer. Bev was instrumental in the definition of hardware performance counters for the first generations of Intel's optimization tools. She holds a Bachelor of Science, Computer Science from University of Oregon and a Masters of Business from Portland State University.