1. Position Benedict R. Gaster AMD

2. The world of programs

3. In the context of progrmming It’s hard!

4. In the context of progrmming Implication: Parallel Programming is hard!

5. But… Does this mean we should not teach it? IMO it is one of the reasons why we should!

6. Returning to the world of programs Not all programs are concurrent or parallel! Concurrency is an important abstraction, even on a single core! Machines have many (many) cores so parallelism is important Haskell and C# Haskell, OpenCL/Cuda, MPI, OpenMP, C#