On Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024, at 11.00 am the NECSTLab will host a NECST Special Talk titled "Challenges in Computing Education - reflections based on a personal experience" in DEIB NECSTLab Meeting Room and on line by Zoom.
During this talk, we will have, as speaker, Prof. Walid Najjar, UC Riverside.
The host is Prof. Cristina Silvano, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano. 

In recent years, the demand for computing education has risen dramatically, and in most cases exceeding the carrying capacity of most departments. Furthermore, the importance of computing training has become very evident not only to all science and engineering majors, but also to many humanities and art majors. In other words, computing is morphing from a niche discipline restricted to its own majors to one that is fundamental to most higher education disciplines. At the same time, our discipline is itself changing very rapidly. Obviously, the conditions are unique in each university and each country. However, we can all learn from each other's experiences to help us navigate these challenges.

Walid Najjar is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California Riverside. He was the chair of the department from 2018 to 2023.
His areas of research include computer architectures and compilers for parallel and high-performance computing, embedded systems, FPGA-based code acceleration and reconfigurable computing. More recently he has been interested in how and what to teach in computing. He received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1985 and 1988 respectively. From 1989 to 2000 he was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Colorado State University, before that he was with the USC-Information Sciences Institute. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/walid.najjar