[oe-sync] Progress on cloudlet-based class projects

[Mahadev Satyanarayanan]

Slight correction:  there are actually 8 x 2-student groups (not 7).
I forgot that two groups are doing independent implementations of Project #4
(Interactive Google Street View hyper-lapse simulation).     So that is a total
of 16 students guided by 6 mentors who are exploring creative uses of
cloudlets.  Should be fun!

              -- Satya


On Thursday 03 September 2015 19:52:48 Mahadev Satyanarayanan wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>  As I mentioned at the meeting today, our class projects are off to a good start.
> There are 25 students in class.  More than half of them (7 x 2-person groups) are doing
> cloudlet-based projects.   You can see the project descriptions at this
> web site:       http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15-821/project-descriptions.html
> (Projects #1 to #8 are the cloudlet-based ones)
> 
>  The mentors for each project are members of my research team and Babu Pillai
> from Intel.  They came up with the high-level sketches of the projects to make sure
> that they would highlight the value of cloudlets.   The students
> will refine these high-level project sketches under the guidance of their
> mentors, and then implement them.   Demo and poster day is December 1, 2015
> from 3-6pm.    You are all welcome to attend this open event and to see
> what the students have built!
> 
>  The cloudlet hardware from Intel arrived yesterday.  My team is working
> hard to get everything installed into the racks, tested, etc.   Kiryong has
> been successful in getting his software installed on one of the machines.
> Lot of hard work ahead in the next few days in getting everything set up.
> This was just-in-time delivery for this class.  Even a few days later would
> have made things very difficult for the class.  Even now it is touch and go!
> Kiryong and Jan are working very hard to get everything up and running.
> 
> Many thanks to Valerie Young and JoZell Johnson of Intel for getting the
> machines delivered to us in time.  And, of course, to Intel for this substantial
> donation of resources (including Babu Pillai's time as a mentor for two projects).
> Thanks also to Google for donation of Glass devices that will be used
> in some of these projects. 
> 
>  We are off to a good start!
> 
>                -- Satya
>  
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