I am working with some of the brightest folks here at Intel, our subject matter experts and architects, such as Clay Breshears, Michael Wrinn, Bob Chesebrough and Tim Mattson (amongst others).  I will also be working closely with the indomitable Wolfgang Rosenberg, manager of the Intel Academic Community. 

My job is to reach out to educators and researchers around the world, to connect them with Intel experts and to help foster development of a curriculum to educate the next generation of programmers and engineers on the newest compute platforms.

Hopefully, this blog will go a long way to opening up channels of communication 

We have a number of events and initiatives planned for this year. 

We have already started our monthly Academic Community Curriculum Webinar Series.  During these webinars, we discuss the newest curriculum topics.  It is a great way to speak directly with our course architects.  I moderate the series and I very much look forward to speaking with you there soon.

The next in the series is on May 15 on multi-core design patterns.  Please Register below.

 Register or view past event here.

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We are creating quite a few short videos supporting our academic efforts.

 I'm in the process now of filming a series on threading topics with an emphasis on game development and visual computing.  So far only the first title on Optimizing for DirectX is posted, but the rest will be available soon.

Is this type of content useful?  Are there better ways to scale out our knowledge and build conversation?  I'd like to hear that from you.

 I've asked around internally as to how folks like to consume information.  As you might imagine, there were a wide-range of responses.  Tim Mattson just rolled his eyes when I started to talk about videos and webinars.  While he is a great presenter, his own preference is to just download the PowerPoint or code and have done with it.

Others, myself included, prefer a richer content set.  For me, nothing beats the immediacy of a live event.  That is one reason we have our monthly webinars.  I am also quite interested in convening smaller conversations, perhaps using something like Communicator or Live Meeting, to discuss specific topics or curriculum ideas.  Let me know by responding to this blog.

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Finally, I've become very interested in different forms of new media.  I'm often available on Twitter -find me as @psteinb.

I am the owner of the Intel Software Second Life Island. 

IM me on Second Life as Peretz Stine.

Check out our launch video.

Over the last year, we ran an event series on our Second Life island dedicated to engaging engineers and professionals around the world in conversation on this unique environment.  That program, sadly, is ended, but you can still view much of it here:

Are you interested in meeting on Second Life or other virtual worlds?  It can be arranged.

 Well that's enough for now -you have you orders -tell me how best to foster dialogue.  I'll be working as hard as I can, but you are the whole point.  Let's start the conversation.