Arndt Bode: The Vice-president of Technical University Munich explains how they integrated parallel programming into the school’s curriculum and how important it is for schools to realize that the ‘free lunch is over’. He shares with us details on an interesting project his school is working on around the design of optimal pinnings of threads in multi-threaded applications and finally discusses the difficulty in predicting the evolution of multi-core architectures and stresses the need for close collaboration between academia and industry in this field. Less