ACM Tech Packs
Doug Terry
SIGOPS Chair and
Editor of Cloud Computing Tech Pack
What’s a Tech Pack?
• A “blended learning package” on a particular
topic especially for practitioners and managers
– Initiated by the PD committee
• A collection of articles from ACM DL, ACM
online books [Safari, Books24x7] and courses
[Element K], videos, interviews, podcasts,
lectures, blogs, discussion groups, pointers to
resources, e.g., MIT [open] courseware, etc.
– ACM and non-ACM materials
What’s a Tech Pack?
• With annotations and expert narratives to put
work into perspective.
• Resources selected for a Tech Pack must be
reviewed by a group of Practitioners.
– Practitioners may be part of the Tech Pack
Committee; Professions Board will help with
Practitioner Review.
• Some Tech Pack Committees may include SIG
leaders, while others may consist of non-SIG,
and/or ACM Fellows, etc.
What Topics?
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Cloud Computing (Doug Terry)
Parallel Programming (Wilf Pinfold)
Mobile Systems (Roy Want)
Globalization (Frances Tsang)
Security
Business Intelligence and Data Mining
Collaboration Domain Knowledge
Storage Systems
Green Computing
Scientific Computing
Open Source
Example: Cloud Computing
Outline:
• Basic paradigm
• Storage
• Data consistency and
replication
• Programming models
• Virtualization
• Monitoring and
provisioning
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Communications
Privacy
Trust
Service level
agreements
• Power management
• Mobility
Example: Cloud Computing
Trust
Cloud computing is viewed as risky for various different reasons, including fears of data leakage,
outages, lack of long-term business viability of service providers, and an inability to get data out
of the cloud once placed there. What explicit steps can cloud providers take to persuade people
that these risks are, in fact, minimal (or make them so), and help them assess them rationally by
comparison with their alternatives?
Readings:
Trusting the cloud
Christian Cachin, Idit Keidar, Alexander Shraer
June 2009 SIGACT News , Volume 40 Issue 2
Controlling data in the cloud: outsourcing computation without outsourcing control
Richard Chow, Philippe Golle, Markus Jakobsson, Elaine Shi, Jessica Staddon, Ryusuke
Masuoka, Jesus Molina
November 2009 CCSW '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM workshop on Cloud computing
security
Visibility for ACM & SIGs
• Hopefully, Tech Packs will encourage new ACM
and SIG membership, especially from
Practitioners.
• Tech Packs bring visibility to the SIG’s offerings
– DL articles, conferences, videos, etc.
• Online Books & Courses website is being redesigned to feature Tech Packs, SIGs will
benefit.
Open Issues
• How best to present this material
– Web page, structured lessons, DL annotations
– Different levels: expert, novice, etc.
• How often to update the material
• How to evaluate if it is meeting the needs of
the target audience, i.e. practitioners
For Further Info…
Contact:
• David Schneider, schneider@acm.org
Education Manager
• Lillian Israel, israel@acm.org
Director, Office of Membership