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TFCC Newsletter
Volume 2, Number 2, November, 2000

IEEE Computer Society

Announcements about TFCC Activities and Achievements


Conference Announcements


Call for Papers - Conferences


Call for Papers - Journals


Journal Announcements


Special Issues on Cluster Computing in Journals


Workshops/Sessions


Tutorials


New Web Sites on Cluster Computing


Short Article - Cluster Computing in the Undergraduate Curriculum
By Dan Hyde, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

The IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have a Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula to develop curricular guidelines for undergraduate programs in computing. Their web site is at http://computer.org/education/cc2001/report/index.html

Traditionally this effort is done every ten years. The previous effort resulted in the report "IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 1991." The Joint Task Force is heavily involved in developing a new report entitled "IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001" to be published next year.

TFCC members Barry Wilkinson and Dan Hyde have been asked to write and submit as part of the report a course description for an upper-level undergraduate course in Cluster Computing.

Barry and Dan invite you to forward your ideas and suggestions on such a course. We have our own ideas but would like to solicit ideas and opinions from the much wider audience. If you know of a paper on a Cluster Computing Course that we should read, send us the URL or the reference.

If you are interested in contributing, look at the web page http://computer.org/education/cc2001/report/curriculum.html and especially at the Net-Centric Computing (NC) and Computational Science (CN) links.

This is a great opportunity to influence the undergraduate curricula in the USA and around the world for the next decade. Please send your suggestions to Dan Hyde by December 10th.


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