Wanted Researchers: Open to Ateneo CS, MIS and ECCE Students
It is that time of the year again when I hear my current batch of students finish their projects and write their papers in preparation for their defenses this week. While reading on some of the latest developments in the space, I found some interesting things that could be worked on.
Here are some ideas for graduating students SY 2008-2009 or SY 2007-2008 who are good at cramming:
Management of Application-level Virtualization Environments
Because of the sustained growth in the availability of computing resources, virtualization is getting more common nowadays. However, as enterprises deploy virtualized environments, new problems such as management and support of virtualized resources become more common place. Together, researchers can study community initiatives like RedHat’s ET and contribute to development a more manageable virtualized computing environment for data centers of the future.Parallelization of Commodity Computing Tasks
It is common to see parallel computing projects be written using parallel development environment such as MPI. using commodity computing hardware. I would like to study options of using some of the more commodity software instead. Together, researchers will study parallel computing architectures are aim to find solutions to making parallel computing more accessible to the general populace. To be specific, I would like to investigate the Apache Hadoop and Google’s MapReduce. The goal is to promote accessible commodity computing with commodity hardware and software.Fun with Mobile LBS
Location-based services on mobile phones are one of the hot topics in the telecommunications industry today. Beyond typical LBS applications like local services and mapping, what other applications can we create? With commodity applications available in retails, we can build a number of interesting mobile applications that are location aware. Check out JSR-179 for J2ME-enabled mobile phones.Fun with Mobile Contactless Technologies
Same with LBS services, Near Field Communications (NFC) or contactless technology is making significant headway in the industry too. What are the interesting applications we can build? If we can come up with an existing application then we can probably get handset to play with. Check out JSR-257 for J2ME-enabled mobile phones.
If you know anybody who is interested in these projects then please feel free to drop me an email or comment on this post. Of course, if you guys have ideas too just bring them on. If hardware or expert advice is need then we can find ways to obtain hardware and expert advice. Good luck!
