HeadStart and Compute 2009 features a set of technology tutorials aimed at giving detailed, practical knowledge of the emerging and the most promising advances in technology. If you want to attend, you need to separately register for the ones you want to attend.
Jan 9th – Symposium on Cloud Computing, with presentations by Google, Yahoo, HP, Infosys, Rediff, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP Labs, University of Monash
[10 am – 5 pm] This tutorial covers many aspects of Cloud computing that include architectural challenges of migrating to a cloud, review of products that use the Cloud, technical issues faced in realizing software delivered from Clouds, the impact of Cloud computing on enterprises and how software is deployed in enterprises and a review of the technology platforms available to implement applications delivered from the Cloud. This tutorial also covers business aspects such as emerging business models, the opportunity for startups and others, and the total cost versus return from Clouds. See the details here.
Jan 9th – Server virtualization, with presentations by HP
[10 am – 1 pm] Server virtualization is the buzz word in technology today. This tutorial will give a brief overview of the partitioning and virtualization technologies, and then cover in-depth the criteria for a hardware to be virtualizable from the perspective of CPU, Memory and I/O, and how early software techniques accomplished this. The tutorial will then look at the hardware evolution in the CPU and Memory virtualization from Intel and AMD and cover advances in I/O virtualization from chip vendors and the PCI SIG. Finally, it will close with a brief look at future trends in this space.
Jan 10th – Mobility, with presentations by Honeywell, Infosys
[10 am – 1 pm] This tutorial will explore application areas and technologies powering mobile devices that we use on our person such as mobile phones and PDAs, at home, at work and otherwise. The application areas include everything from mobile payment systems, transport and logistics, mobile handhelds, home networks and industrial and building automation. The tutorial will start with a talk on next generation mobile client platforms followed by a survey of application areas and use cases which will then be followed by a talk on technology infrastructure required to power mobility. The tutorial will then close after taking a look at enterprise mobility – application areas, and convergence gateways.
Jan 10th – Search and Social platforms, with presentations by Yahoo, Google and Infosys
[3 pm – 6 pm] This tutorial does a survey of the state-of-art in search and social network platforms and explores how social networks and search platforms in the future may have to do with a lot with each other. For example, in a search engine in the not too distant future, you may be able to put in a query that requires results to be ranked by references from people. Similarly, searching for people by not just interest areas but by how influential they are in a particular area of interest should become possible. All these use cases suggest that social graphs (exposed by social networks) and link graphs (exposed by search engines) may be put to use together to yield better search results and social features. See the details here.