COMPUTERS: THE MACHINES, SCIENCE, PEOPLE, AND CAREERS! WORKSHOP

CRPC researcher Mani Chandy talks to students during the CRPC's "Computers: The Machines, Science, People, and Careers!" workshop at Caltech, March 21-22, 1994. Chandy introduced students to the "sorting race" game, which provided a creative and intellectually challenging way to demonstrate computational principles. After the game was over, he gave a short talk tying together the concepts that the students had learned.

Workshop participants learned parallel computing hands-on by playing a "sorting race" game, which demonstrated how both sequential and parallel computers regulate internal communication. A card with a specified number was given to each player, who then communicated the value of their number to other players.

William Lester, Jr., a professor in the chemistry department at the University of California at Berkeley and a member of the CRPC's External Advisory Committee (see article on p. 1), delivers the keynote address to high school students at the CRPC's "Computers: The Machines, Science, People, and Careers!" workshop at Caltech. Students had a chance to talk with professionals from all areas of computational science and engineering.

Caltech and CRPC staff, including Roy Williams at left in this photo, gave students in the "Computers: The Machines, Science, People, and Careers!" workshop tours of computer laboratories and other research facilities at Caltech. The students also witnessed demonstrations of online database searching, electronic mail, scanning, and other computer uses.

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