Tentative Schedule

- Administrative details and Introduction [slides]
- Introduction to cloud computing and AWS (Dr. He)
- Cloud platform practices: Examples (Dr. He)
- Data Representation from structured to unstructured (Dr. Dragut)
- Distributed file systems: Hadoop and Google's GFS (Dr. He)
- Map/Reduce Programming Model (Dr. Dragut)
- Virtualization: KVM and Xen (Dr. He)
- Finding Similar Items and Streaming Data (Dr. Dragut)
- Intro to Spark and Data Ethics (Dr. Dragut)
- Cloud Storage
- Big Data and Matrices
- Cloud Security
- GPU Computing with Application to NLP