But even as Intel pushes into nanotechnology, computing is now reaching the limits of that law. ... One group at Berkeley calls it the end of the “La-Z-Boy era” of sequential programming.

Recently, I had the good fortune to present a class at the ACM Conference for Computer Science Educators (SIGCSE). While I definitely shared my enthusiasm for parallel programming, I had two key ...

The authors of my Editor’s Top Picks for this week – Atego’s Kelvin Nilsen and Adacore’s S. Tucker Taft – believe that despite all the tools that allow embedded systems developers to maintain ...

Multicore chip designs, large symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) systems, and clustering can bring many processors to bear on an application. But without proper software, they ...

Programming general purpose multi-core processors is generally regarded as impossible, but XMOS Semiconductor has done it and is applying it in practical applications, according to the CTO of XMOS, ...

The graphical user interface (GUI) went mainstream during the personal computer revolution of the 1980s. Compared to the command-line interface it replaced, GUI introduced new levels of complexity ...

This permeation of sequential thinking through all things related to code has become so ingrained in us, its simply difficult to change. Wheat from Chaff: Most existing parallel programming ...

A new Rabbids game from Ubisoft teaches players the basics of coding for free. Available on Windows via Ubisoft's game store, Uplay, Rabbids Coding teaches sequential programming, loops, and ...