Professor H. T. Kung
225 Maxwell-Dworkin
617-496-6211
kung@harvard.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Beyond all the hype, what is cloud computing really about? What is its impact on computer applications and services? This course examines these questions and provides opportunities for hands-on experience. Focus will be placed on mobile applications, an emerging area of cloud computing expected to grow rapidly in the next several years. The coursework will involve survey of related literature; design and implementation of protocols, algorithms and systems; lab experiments; project formulation; and the resulting presentation and reporting. Depending on their interests and background, students may choose to work on a subset of these tasks, or define their own. Example course projects could be "cellphone clones in the cloud," "automated load balancing with virtual machines," "Android phone on a netbook," "ad-hoc clouds in the field," and "process migration with virtual machines." Some of these projects will be linked to new research projects we have here at Harvard in this area.