In an earlier post I mentioned that one goal of the new introductory curriculum at Carnegie Mellon is to teach parallelism as the general case of computing, rather than an esoteric, specialized subject for advanced students. Many people are incredulous when I tell them this, because it immediately conjures in their mind the myriad complexities…
J. De Koster, S. Marr, and T. D'Hondt. Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, page 317--318. ACM, (February 2012)(Poster).