- Parallel Thinking, organized by Guy Blelloch

One of the major types of activities of the Center for Computational  Thinking is the PROBE, short for PRoblem-Oriented Exploration.  A  PROBE focuses on a specific problem domain in computational thinking  (for example, "parallel thinking"), and lasts for approximately one  year. Its purpose is to define educational and research frameworks  for computational solutions and appropriate mathematical formulations  for that problem domain, and thus involves both domain experts as  well computer scientists.

PROBEs provide funding for faculty, students, and possibly  postdoctoral fellows, as well as travel funding for the workshops. To  maximize pay-off, PROBEs seek broadly-applicable solutions to domain  problems, and not specialized solutions for specific scenarios nor  detailed solutions for the purpose of commercialization (i.e.,  research, not product development).  Ideas for PROBEs come out of  MindSwap events.
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