The face of computer science is always changing and the pace of that change increases every day. One of the huge ongoing changes in today's engineering approach is a shift from single machines, or small clusters of machines, to massive distributed networks containing hundreds, if not thousands, of servers. Massively parallel and foreign to most people.
Today the Google blog contained an entry called Let a thousand servers bloom about this topic and they reference a really interesting lecture series they are hosting on Google Code for Educators called Cluster Computing and MapReduce which contains video lectures and related course materials from a series of lectures that was taught to Google software engineering interns during the Summer of 2007.
While not part of the Google Blog linked above, Google Code for Educators also has a great lecture on Web Security containing two lectures and a programming assignment that is designed to introduce students to web based security.
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