I have, on many occasions, been accused of living under a lucky star. Not wanting to buy into the whole 'luck' paradigm... I may have to agree as I once again find myself in a 'lucky' situation being one of the few programmers in my organization that understand how to effectively use and program for multicore processors. Fortuitous I have to admit in light of the article below.
Where Are the Programmers?
EE Times (03/12/07) Merritt, Rick
At a time when the amount of students pursuing computer science degrees is declining, researchers are struggling with the parallel programming that will run on the next generation of multicore processors.