The advent of technology, especially the internet, has led to various breakthrough studies towards its use to the fullest. The internet is making the whole world a global village and we know of nothing that the internet doesn’t contain. Cloud computing is a rapidly developing and excellent promising technology. It has aroused the concern of the computer society of the whole world. Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared information, resources, and software, are provided to terminals and portable devices on-demand, like the energy grid.
Saint Louis University’s researcher and assistant professor of Computer Science Flavio Esposito, has proven that the sky is the limit when it comes to technology. As the leader of this Avant-garde research, Esposito aims to study how decomposition, or breaking up, of complex problems in computer science, can be applied to improving application software performance and capabilities via cloud computing. He plans to investigate how to best apply these insights to a wide variety of software, including Virtual and Augmented Reality.
Several applications today ranging from our phones to watches rely on cloud technologies. The future is, however, in distributed computing. This means, taming big datasets, as well as reducing the time to obtain a response from a computer. This emerging paradigm is called “edge or fog computing,” or computing at the edge of our end-users, not far away in the cloud somewhere.
Esposito was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study distributed computing systems like the Cloud as well as edge computing capabilities. Joined by researchers at Bentley University and Boston University, the team plans to push the boundaries of computing power to better understand how to partition an application to drive cost efficiency and usability for the user. The project also plans on providing educational opportunities for high school students and populations underrepresented in the computer science field through interactive tutorials and mentorship.
Esposito brings several years of experience performing cloud computing research to this project and is grateful for another opportunity to learn about, as well as develop, software applications of the future.
Radhika Boruah