Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: CDL: Preparing Instructors to Offer Experimental Courses in an Updated PDC Curriculum, and Broadening Participation

这一努力将培养一支大学教职员工队伍，引领计算机科学课程的转变，以确保学生接受使用21世纪平台的教育，这些平台广泛地结合了并行和分布式计算(PDC)。20世纪的计算机大多建立在单个处理器的原理上，执行一系列操作。这种模式与课程紧密相关，尽管在过去十年里，多核处理器、图形处理器、在线服务器和物联网得到了广泛部署，所有这些都依赖于PDC在解决问题和编程方面截然不同的思维方式。金融、技术、科学、工程和医疗公司、政府实验室、国防部、情报界和许多其他部门都在拼命寻找能够利用PDC系统的员工，因为现有的劳动力严重沉浸在旧的顺序模型中。即使是刚毕业的学生也继续学习旧的方法，因为教育系统中有相当大的惰性。因此，通过将PDC纳入计算机科学教育的早期阶段，通过教授教师，该项目将战略性地服务于国家利益，正如NSF的使命所述：促进科学进步；促进国家健康、繁荣和福利；并确保国防安全。拥有美国在所有这些领域保持领导地位所需的计算技能，将是实现新兴劳动力现代化的重要一步。并行和分布式计算课程开发和教育资源中心(CDER)与IEEE计算机协会并行处理技术委员会一起，制定了并行和分布式计算(PDC)的课程指南，指导了ACM计算机科学课程2013年的PDC方面。该指导方针寻求在头两年将课程从顺序模式转变为PDC模式。在现代世界中，学生必须从一开始就将PDC视为计算问题解决的一个方面。该项目将更新课程指南，特别关注大数据、能源、分布式计算和范例。它将为教职员工提供赠款(鼓励服务于代表性不足群体的机构参与)，让他们从事课程开发工作，并参加一个研讨会，在那里他们将接受PDC的使用以及实验课程设计和评估方面的培训。在赠款期间每年夏天举办的讲习班还将支持工业界和政府利益攸关方出席，以帮助建立关系网络。除课程发展补助金外，还将向参加研讨会的其他讲师提供差旅支持。

This effort will develop a cadre of college faculty to pioneer a shift in the computer science curriculum to ensure students are educated in the use of 21st century platforms that pervasively incorporate parallel and distributed computing (PDC). Twentieth century computers were mostly built on the principle of a single processor, executing a sequence of operations. That model is tightly bound into curricula, even though the last decade has seen widespread deployment of multi-core processors, graphics processors, online servers, and the internet of things, all of which depend on the much different PDC mindset for problem solving and programming. Financial, technical, scientific, engineering and medical companies, government laboratories, the department of defense, the intelligence community, and many other sectors are desperately seeking employees who can exploit PDC systems, because the existing workforce was heavily steeped in the older sequential model. Even new graduates continue to learn the old approach because of the considerable inertia in the educational system. Thus, by turning the tide toward incorporation of PDC into the early stages of computer science education, through teaching the teachers, this project will strategically serve the national interest, as stated by NSF's mission: to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; and to secure the national defense. It will be a significant step toward modernizing the emerging workforce to have the computing skills needed for the United States to maintain leadership in all of these areas.The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER) with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, developed curriculum guidelines for parallel and distributed computing (PDC) that guided PDC aspects of the ACM Computer Science Curricula 2013. The guideline sought to shift courses in the first two years from the sequential model toward the PDC paradigm. In the modern world, students must see PDC as an aspect of computational problem solving from the very beginning. This project will update the curriculum guideline, with special foci on big data, energy, distributed computing, and exemplars. It will offer grants (encouraging participation by institutions serving underrepresented groups) for faculty to work on course development and attend a workshop where they will be trained in the use of PDC, and in experimental course design and evaluation. The workshops, offered each summer of the grant period, will also support attendance by industrial and government stakeholders to help build a network of relationships. Additional instructors will be offered travel support to attend the workshops, beyond the course development grants.