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What should we be teaching our computer
science students?
Timothy G. Mattson
Intel Corporation
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The future of software engineering
Python! I Just Typed
You’re flying!
How?
Source: www.xkcd.com
import antigravity
But who will write the antigravity
module
• If the gravitation engineering experts are trained
primarily about different ways to “import
antigravity” who will make our antigravity modules
– High performance
– Low energy
– Portable to different gravity manipulation platforms
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It’s all about the separation of concerns
• More and more code is written by domain experts working
in high level frameworks.
• If “high level modular” programming is all our C.S. students
learn, then they will become irrelevant.
• Computer Science … the plumbers of our computational
world.
– Architecture
– Mapping applications onto architecture
– Bridging models to connect (efficiently) architectures to applications.
– Build (and optimize) frameworks.
– Math (so they can talk to scientists and engineers)
Remember, it’s a global market. Industry will go to where the best
plumbers are. If the U.S. academic community doesn’t rise to the
challenge, we’ll go to India, China, Russia, Canada …